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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Path: sserve!manuel.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!haven.umd.edu!decuac!darryl From: darryl@sousa (Darryl Wagoner) Subject: Re: 386BSD vs BSDI (Fallacy #1) Message-ID: <1993Mar1.040431.23761@decuac.dec.com> Sender: news@decuac.dec.com (USENET News System) Nntp-Posting-Host: dsnine.dco.dec.com Organization: Digital Equipment Corp., Washington ULTRIX Resource Center X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL5 References: <1mmsetINN2o8@life.ai.mit.edu> Date: Mon, 1 Mar 1993 04:04:31 GMT Lines: 21 Charles Hannum (mycroft@hal.gnu.ai.mit.edu) wrote: : USL undoubtedly is concerned that anyway gaining access to a complete : list will simply rewrite all the relevant pieces of code before they : make any legal claim. While I don't necessarily think that USL is : doing the right thing, given what they are doing, that concern is : valid, and I would venture to say that quietly rewriting the code that : you (or even someone else) blatantly copies so you won't get caught is : rather slimy; it should have been rewritten to begin with. Yes, if it was done with the intent to steal code, it is very slimy! But if it was an oversite, or in faith thought it was PD code then found out that it was Copyrighted, then one of the things to do to correct the error is to rewrite the code using an untained programmer. That is my 2 bits. -darryl