RE: Cisco's stolen code

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

Assuming the book is legally published with the source code belonging to the
author, or proper permissions obtained, reading a book should not be a
problem.  Otherwise, college courses would also be illegal.  Unless that is
what people like SCO want.

-----Original Message-----
From: full-disclosure-admin () lists netsys com
[mailto:full-disclosure-admin () lists netsys com]On Behalf Of Azerail
Sent: Thursday, May 27, 2004 6:02 AM
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Subject: Re: [Full-disclosure] 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.

So much for reading a book on code then.  How sad.

Azerail

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