Hrrrm. doesn't American law say something like "if something has
been placed in a publically accewsible place, then no part of it
is a trade secret, and the company has no legal recourse if
someone else then uses that "secret"." That was certainly the
argument used wrt the m$ Kerberos extensions when they were
posted on /.
Just a few more quick thoughts.
Breaks up the cursing of Sun that I'd be doing otherwise...
-Thom
At some point around Fri, Oct 27, 2000 at 10:12:12AM +0100, Jim Hague said:
> MS seem to have been comprehensively hacked - check out
> http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/business/newsid_993000/993826.stm. It seems
> (according to BBC & WSJ) that passwords to machines holding MS source have been
> quietly emailed to an address in St Petersburg (as in Leningrad/Petrograd)
> for the last 3 *months*. MS currently frantically trying to see if any
> little 'mods' have been made to their source base in that time.
>
> No sniggering at the back.
>
> Today's food for thought. You have obtained the entire source for, say, W2k and
> O2k. What do you do with it?
>
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