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Date:      Fri, 28 Apr 2000 19:09:39 -0600
From:      Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org>
To:        Kris Kennaway <kris@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com>, "G. Adam Stanislav" <adam@whizkidtech.net>, chat@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: M$ anti-trust case
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In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0004281421110.78801-100000@freefall.freebsd. org>
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At 03:21 PM 4/28/2000, Kris Kennaway wrote:
   
>On Wed, 26 Apr 2000, Brett Glass wrote:
>
> > Actually, the original point I made was that Symantec wantonly
> > copied Steve's surface analysis algorithms -- they literally
> > took the assembly code verbatim! -- and then licensed the 
> > code to Microsoft. So, Steve's work is in a Microsoft product
> > and he's gotten no payment for it. 
>
>So he should have GPLed the code so it couldn't be ripped off by those
>corporate fascists? :-)

Yeah, right. Actually, if he'd GPLed it he would first have had to
prove that the GPL was valid and enforceable.

--Brett



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