RE: [Full-Disclosure] Cisco's stolen code
From: Ng, Kenneth (US) (kenng_at_kpmg.com)
Date: 05/27/04
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To: "'Azerail'" <Azerail@supersecretninjaskills.com>, full-disclosure@lists.netsys.com Date: Thu, 27 May 2004 09:08:24 -0400
Assuming the book is legally published with the source code belonging to the
author, or proper permissions obtained, reading a book should not be a
problem. Otherwise, college courses would also be illegal. Unless that is
what people like SCO want.
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Subject: Re: [Full-Disclosure] Cisco's stolen code
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.
So much for reading a book on code then. How sad.
Azerail
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