RE: Cisco's stolen code

["Ng, Kenneth (US)" <kenng () kpmg com>]

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.

-----Original Message-----
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Sent: Tuesday, May 25, 2004 12:59 PM
To: Brian Toovey
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Subject: Re: [Full-disclosure] Cisco's stolen code 


On Tue, 25 May 2004 11:28:19 EDT, Brian Toovey <btoovey () igxglobal com>
said:
> if whitehats dont audit the code, who will?  I find your response more
> ignorant.
Whitehats won't go anywhere near the Cisco code for the same reason they
won't
go near the Windows code - even if they feel morally justified in peeking at
the source code, it's still illegal to do so.  So you need at least a
slightly
gray hat to even consider the idea - so only grey/black hats will benefit.
#include <open-source-is-better-because-whitehats-can-audit-too.h>


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