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Message-ID: <Pine.GSO.4.43.0405251441000.29158-100000@tundra.winternet.com> From: dufresne at winternet.com (Ron DuFresne) Subject: 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. Well except all that code stoen from SCO <grin>... Thanks, Ron DuFresne ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ "Cutting the space budget really restores my faith in humanity. It eliminates dreams, goals, and ideals and lets us get straight to the business of hate, debauchery, and self-annihilation." -- Johnny Hart ***testing, only testing, and damn good at it too!*** OK, so you're a Ph.D. Just don't touch anything.
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