From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Jul 27 18:58:09 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id SAA03068 for hackers-outgoing; Sun, 27 Jul 1997 18:58:09 -0700 (PDT) Received: from etinc.com (et-gw-fr1.etinc.com [204.141.244.98]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id SAA03062 for ; Sun, 27 Jul 1997 18:58:05 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ntws (ntws.etinc.com [204.141.95.142]) by etinc.com (8.8.3/8.6.9) with SMTP id WAA25980; Sun, 27 Jul 1997 22:04:38 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: <3.0.32.19970727215623.00b1fa00@etinc.com> X-Sender: dennis@etinc.com X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Pro Version 3.0 (32) Date: Sun, 27 Jul 1997 21:56:28 -0400 To: Sean Eric Fagan , hackers@FreeBSD.ORG From: dennis Subject: Re: SVR4.2MP source code has become available recently? Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk At 09:31 AM 7/27/97 -0700, Sean Eric Fagan wrote: >In article you write: >>I've hear rumors that the source code for SCO UnixWare 2.1.x >>is now available from SCO for $500 for educational >>institutions. >> >>Isn't this interesting as a reference? How do you think? > >No. Under no circumstances should you use it as a reference. This is >dangerous. > >Unless, of course, you don't want to do any FreeBSD development, or, if >you do, you want to get yourself and/or Jordan Hubbard sued for some >intellectual property violation (e.g., copyright or trade secret). HAHAHA This is the joke of modern software "non-disclosure". Do you really think that Jordan is worth enough for SCO to deal with suing? Or any other individual or small company? I love it when a little ISP tells me they will sign a ND if we give them source...thats all I need, a bunch of servers and some modem pools in Moosebreath Montana...which is exactly what I'll get if I have to sue them. Another interesting issue is that states and universities are exempt from many copyright infringement type suits (I forget the exact wording), so giving source to a university is like putting it in skywriting......I doubt if SCO is that stupid, unless they are hoping that some major concern blossoms as a result so that they would have someone worth suing. They know that in todays world if a university has it, the rest of the world will have it soon. You can't sue Cornell because some freshman puts a tarball on the internet "by accident". Dennis Dennis