On Mon, Oct 30, 2000 at 01:43:04PM +1000, John Wiltshire wrote:
> >From: Jim Hague [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
>
> >Today's food for thought. You have obtained the entire source
> >for, say, W2k and
> >O2k. What do you do with it?
>
> Several hundred universities across the world have the source for W2K. At
> least a dozen in Australia do (QUT is one, not sure about in Sydney). WTF
> is the big deal about a couple more people having it?
>
> If I had the source, I'd probably go through it to see what good ideas there
> are in there to use in my own code - same thing I do with the Linux sources.
> Of course the S/N ratio is probably a big better in the Linux sources.
Yeah but this is dangerous. Read the article on slashdot about
it. Simple example
You find W2K source somewhere read through it.
Microsoft knows you did this for some reason.
You now start working on the samba project and code in kick ass
PDC support.
Microsoft sues you and samba for copyright infringement among a
whole heap of other things.
Moral: Don't browse non open source code looking for ideas. If it's not
open source then you can't use them.
--
John
The difference between a good man and a bad one is the
choice of cause - William James
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