Hi Ian, (01)
I spoke with Adam recently, and he mentioned your name as someone who
has worked with British Telecom from time to time. (02)
I'm currently volunteering some of my time on a project for the Computer
History Museum's Software Collection Committee. The goal is to locate
and preserve historically important software. The system that I am
helping to try to preserve is the NLS/Augment system, originally started
in the 1960's by Doug Engelbart (inventor of the mouse) at SRI. (03)
The Computer History Museum is hoping to locate the copyright owner and
request that the owner consider transferring the rights to the copyright
for NLS/Augment to the Computer History Museum for preservation for
future generations. (04)
It isn't completely clear who owns the copyright. However, we believe it
is either Boeing or British Telecom. (05)
We have already gotten a verbal agreement from Boeing to transfer any
ownership of NLS/Augment that they have (if they have it) to the CHM. (06)
We are hoping that British Telecom will follow Boeing's footsteps and do
the same. (07)
Unfortunately, the CHM doesn't have any contacts at British Telecom to
start this process. Adam mentioned that you have worked with people at
British Telecom, as well as people from the company to which they
outsource their legal work. I was wondering if you might consider giving
us an introduction to any relevant people at BT. Also, do you have any
suggestions for the best way to proceed? (08)
If you need any additional background information about either the
NLS/Augment software itself, or about the current Computer History
Museum project itself, I would be happy to send you more information. (09)
Thanks for all of your help! (010)
Jonathan Cheyer (011)
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