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

[Richard Maher]

On 10/3/2013 2:41 PM, Phillip Helbig---undress to reply wrote:
> In article <524cc113$0$59876$c3e8da3$e074e489 at news.astraweb.com>, JF
> Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot at vaxination.ca> writes:
>
>> But if HP does not respond, and the party can show due diligence and
>> multiple attempts to get an answer from HP, a judge will have to use
>> something called "judgement" (that is what judges are there for :-).
>> The argument that HP has abandonned claims of ownership through lack of
>> response becomes important.
>
>> Making the source of the PDP11 operating systems public will not deprive
>> anyone of revenues and if any, might in fact generate puzz/pbhlicity for
>> those old machines and increase chances that XX2247 might increase its
>> revenues from it.
>
> I think you seriously misunderstand the entire concept.  If HP owns the
> copyright, and HP decides not to respond, this does not weaken their
> claim to copyright.
>

I am also not a dentist but my "understanding" of the law, certainly 
from the Trade Mark and Patent point of view, if you do not defend your 
claim then there is an argument to be made that you have abandoned your 
rights. The decision is up to the courts but the onus is on the owner to 
defend their rights. (English-based trade-marks and patents) Copyright 
is sort of "a given" here. Lots of free books on Amazon and there was 
that 50 year Disney extension thing?

Cheers Richard Maher

PS. If someone has a publicly accessible IA64 that they're willing to 
host some amazing software on, please let me know.