---- START NEW MESSAGE --- Received: from cherry.ease.lsoft.com [209.119.0.109] by dpmail10.doteasy.com with ESMTP (SMTPD32-8.05) id AB553CE600D8; Sun, 01 Feb 2004 12:02:29 -0800 Received: from PEAR.EASE.LSOFT.COM (209.119.0.19) by cherry.ease.lsoft.com (LSMTP for Digital Unix v1.1b) with SMTP id <16.00CC7F7A@cherry.ease.lsoft.com>; 1 Feb 2004 15:02:23 -0500 Received: from MITVMA.MIT.EDU by MITVMA.MIT.EDU (LISTSERV-TCP/IP release 1.8e) with spool id 2450 for PICLIST@MITVMA.MIT.EDU; Sun, 1 Feb 2004 15:02:16 -0500 Received: from MITVMA (NJE origin SMTP@MITVMA) by MITVMA.MIT.EDU (LMail V1.2d/1.8d) with BSMTP id 3043; Sun, 1 Feb 2004 15:01:15 -0500 Received: from durango.natetech.com [216.17.150.117] by mitvma.mit.edu (IBM VM SMTP Level 430) via TCP with ESMTP ; Sun, 01 Feb 2004 15:01:15 EST X-Comment: mitvma.mit.edu: Mail was sent by durango.natetech.com Received: from midair.natetech.com ([216.17.141.162] helo=natetech.com) by durango.natetech.com with esmtp (Exim 4.30) id 1AnNmP-000740-8f for PICLIST@MITVMA.MIT.EDU; Sun, 01 Feb 2004 13:01:17 -0700 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v553) Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.553) Message-ID: <650541B2-54F1-11D8-BB4E-003065AF7D80@natetech.com> Date: Sun, 1 Feb 2004 13:01:16 -0700 Reply-To: pic microcontroller discussion list Sender: pic microcontroller discussion list From: Nate Duehr Subject: Re: [OT:] SCO lobbying Congress about Linux To: PICLIST@MITVMA.MIT.EDU In-Reply-To: Precedence: list X-RCPT-TO: Status: U X-UIDL: 371856767 On Saturday, Jan 31, 2004, at 05:24 America/Denver, Howard Winter wrote: > Wouter, > > On Sat, 31 Jan 2004 10:47:58 +0100, Wouter van Ooijen > wrote: > >>> I >>> can also make >>> changes to it that make it completely useless and > broken and >>> call it muvium >>> and give that away also and ruin your business when > people >>> download the wrong >>> version from a Google search. >> >> I think that would be illegal (at least under Dutch > law). > > And under English law. As are attempts at hacking into > someone else's system, writing and distributing viruses, > worms, spyware, misusing "Personal Data", and (now) > sending unsolicited spam. The bad news is that there > doesn't seem to be much effort to enforce this lot! Hi Howard, I'm not suggesting anyone would do anything illegal, I'm suggesting that by releasing under the Public Domain (at least in the U.S.) the person has Zero right to the software after that -- even if someone releases a piece of software that does the exact same thing by copying the original. Even worse, someone could release a version that's named the same but has "mistakes" in it to cause the reputation of the original to go down. I left Copyright out of this -- just discussing the fact that muvuim is PD. And definitely agreed... the cracking laws are not enforced highly enough here either. Nate -- http://www.piclist.com hint: PICList Posts must start with ONE topic: [PIC]:,[SX]:,[AVR]: ->uP ONLY! [EE]:,[OT]: ->Other [BUY]:,[AD]: ->Ads .