RE: [Full-Disclosure] Cisco's stolen code

From: Ron DuFresne (dufresne_at_winternet.com)
Date: 05/25/04

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    To: "Ng, Kenneth (US)" <kenng@kpmg.com>
Date: Tue, 25 May 2004 14:41:53 -0500 (CDT)

    On Tue, 25 May 2004, Ng, Kenneth (US) wrote:

    > Brian: I will give you another good reason to not go near the stolen code.
    > If you EVER want to work on any project that is even remotely related to
    > routers, or routing or anything else that Cisco equipment can do, you can
    > not have touched any of the stolen code, or your code will be suspect.
    > (Your accounting package has queues? Cisco IOS has queues (I assume), you
    > must have copied it.) Even if your writing the code entirely from scratch,
    > because you have seen the stolen code, you may be suspect. Is it unfair?
    > Definitely. But this is why the GNU people emphasize staying away from any
    > licensed source code.

    Well except all that code stoen from SCO <grin>...

    Thanks,

    Ron DuFresne
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    OK, so you're a Ph.D. Just don't touch anything.

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