full-disclosure - Re: Busting The Bluetooth Myth

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Message-ID: <460FE854.7080502@kallisti.se>
Date: Sun, 01 Apr 2007 19:13:56 +0200
From: Anders B Jansson <hdw@...listi.se>
To: full-disclosure@...ts.grok.org.uk
Subject: Re: Busting The Bluetooth Myth

Giorgio Fedon wrote:

> Worse is to sustain the fact that the world need a better bluetooth
> sniffer, using the information that can be found inside the warezed
> version of the tool. The opensource community I think that is able to do
> it's own research without software piracy.

If the information is within the 'warezed' version, then it's also
within 'the non-warezed' one.

Using available distributed information to write software isn't piracy.

Taking someones written software and distributing it as your own and
under your own terms most certainly is.

But building on someones idea and distributed information to write a
different tool (smaller, bigger, better, worse, cheaper, what ever) isn't.

-- 
// hdw

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