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To: Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com>
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Subject: Re: Abuses of the BSD license?
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Date: 07 Apr 2002 20:41:24 -0700
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Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com> writes:

> What people are normally protecting by not leaving papers
> at McDonalds are trade secrets and proprietary business
> information (product direction, etc.).

I hope you won't mind my pointing out a redundancy there that strokes a
pet peeve of mine the wrong way. :) Such business information is just a
type of trade secrets -- business (trade) secrets.  Trade secrets,
patented ideas, service and trademarks, and copyrighted works are all
forms of proprietary information (which has only recently also been
referred to as intellectual property, BTW).  Secrets are often
proprietary information, but proprietary information is often not
secret.

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