RE: RE: How Many Trees? (WAS: URGENT: Immediate ethical issue)

["Dick Margulis " <margulis -at- mail -dot- fiam -dot- net>]

Steve seems here to be confusing his opinion of the way the law ought to work with the fact of the way it works. The only connection to technical writing I can see is that we, as technical writers, ought to be clear on the difference between fact and opinion. However, I can see how working as a contractor for the US military could make logical thought processes difficult to maintain for all but the strongest among us.

"Gillespie, Stephen (Contractor)"<Stephen -dot- Gillespie -at- Persnet -dot- Navy -dot- Mil> wrote:
>
>Wow, Gene, maybe we need to consult a lawyer because that's a really strange
>way of looking at it - are not the results of independent research and their
>published expression the same as if I wrote the Great American Novel? -
>meaning, both would be MY copyrightable property?
>
>

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