[Info-vax] In memoriam: 10 years since Alpha's passing away.

[Richard B. Gilbert]

On 7/10/2011 1:54 PM, JF Mezei wrote:
> Richard B. Gilbert wrote:
>
>> If you copy and republish the Alpha Architecture Handbook you should be
>> prepared to spend a few months or years defending a lawsuit for
>> violation of HP's Copyright!
>
> HP would first have to settle a lawsuit between itself and Intel to
> decide who has the right to sue you for photocopying the specs of an
> architecture killed 10 years ago. :-) I suspect that HP would find a way
> to name Oracle in this lawsuit :-)

The sin is not the photo copy, it's the distribution!

It's entirely possible that nobody gives a s*** any longer but I 
wouldn't want to count on it.