Re: The Making of a Calendar, 1995

[zwicky <zwicky@pterodactyl.neu.sgi.com>]

Indeed, I didn't mean to claim any credit for the 1995 calendar
itself; that was Pat's inspiration (and perspiration) and a
marvelously demented artist.  The point I was ineptly trying to convey
was that the sparseness of dates is not because nobody wanted to fill
in blocks, and not because nobody tried -- in fact, not only did the
original calendar team try, so did all the vaguely relevant people,
including the USENIX office staff, the SAGE board, and random
passers-by who didn't flee fast enough. (There was even a request
put out to the mailing list, as I remember.) 

In general, other people's collections of 14 million random dates have
a compilation copyright and they get annoyed if you use them
entire. This makes it legally tricky to pull in collections of unknown
or unclear origin (you don't know if whoever originally input them got
them from somewhere copyright).

	Elizabeth
	zwicky@neu.sgi.com