[Info-vax] [Attn: HP Employees] PDP-11 OS hobbyist licensing

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On Tuesday, October 1, 2013 5:36:20 PM UTC-4, Johnny Billquist wrote:
> On 2013-10-01 22:21, JF Mezei wrote:
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> > On 13-10-01 16:02, Bill Gunshannon wrote:
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> >> HP already has lawyers on staff.  What makes you think the cost would be
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> >> high?
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> >
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> > dept A would have to budget for the time spend by the lawyers in dept B
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> > at HP. Just because they are internal to HP does not mean that there is
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> > no cost to them.
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> The cost is, however, born the whole time anyway. Might as well make use 
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> of them...

This violates conservation of time. 
If the lawyers start spending time on pdp
stuff, that's that much less time they spend on other stuff. 

[...]
> 	Johnny

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