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From: dw at botanicus.net (David M. Wilson) Subject: Fwd: fuck symantec & boycott bugtraq On Fri, Jan 10, 2003 at 01:18:49AM +0100, Ka wrote: > What the fuck is going on in American minds after the Daffy Moron > Cockeyed Act? As soon as someone mentions "copyright" or "license" you > seem to p... - read: stop thinking immediatedly. This is a totally seperate issue from the DMCA - it is a matter of basic human rights to ownership over the product of their craftsmanship. Symantec are a very large organisation, and no doubt have a large legal department. Given the aquisition of securityfocus.com, any half-witted legal type is going to realise it is absolutely teaming with copyrighted works. I am not sure how it works in the U.S.A., but in the U.K. I have always been taught that copyright is implicit; once I create something, it is my property. Whether I mark it "(c) m4d h4x0r, DO N0T D1STr0!", or not. A large unweildy database of exploit code owned and controlled by scores of anonymous hackers spread across the globe presents a massive legal nightmare. You could spend millions contacting each and every individual to get his/her consent for use of their code, or you can simply just pull the plug. > This is indeed 100% success for Microsoft - they managed to > implant their ideas about copyright and licensing into nearly > everybody coming near a computer. Yeah man, Microsoft invented capitalism. Whether most people agree with me or not (and especially not on this list), intellectual property protects us just as much as it damages us. (</troll>) Even some basic historical reading will show you that Microsoft were not the inventors of the closed-source binary, it happened long before that. When? I don't know, nor do I care. Time for bed. Try The Cathedral And The Bazaar, ESR rants about a closed-source driver for a Xerox prototype printer in the 70s IIRC. David.
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