Re: MS internal network compromised

2000-11-01 Thread Shlomi Fish
On Wed, 1 Nov 2000, Uri Bruck wrote: > > > Which can be done in court behind closed doors. > Moot point. > But then those people in the court will see that it's not the same. Regards, Shlomi Fish > On Fri, 27 Oct 2000, Hetz Ben Hamo wrote: > > > Sorry, but you're wrong.. > > > >

Re: MS internal network compromised

2000-11-01 Thread Uri Bruck
Which can be done in court behind closed doors. Moot point. On Fri, 27 Oct 2000, Hetz Ben Hamo wrote: > Sorry, but you're wrong.. > > Since most of Linux applications are open source - they cannot say it's > stolen, cause if they'll say that - then they'll have to show their code > and prove

Re: MS internal network compromised

2000-10-29 Thread Stanislav Malyshev a.k.a Frodo
SF>> According to this kind of logic, MS would actually want their code to be SF>> stolen. Let's get serious: if an open-source code implements something No. The loss would be much greater than the benefit. But if it's _already_ stolen anyway, why not to use it? SF>> a copyrighted code and use i

Re: MS internal network compromised

2000-10-29 Thread Jonathan Ben-Avraham
Gentlemen, Please stop this. During 1996 I worked at Mainsoft porting OLE2, regedit and almost every other piece of the Microsoft development environment to various Unixes. The source code is of such uniformly poor quality that no open source effort would accept it as the basis for any developmen

Re: MS internal network compromised

2000-10-29 Thread Shlomi Fish
On Sat, 28 Oct 2000, Stanislav Malyshev a.k.a Frodo wrote: > Moreover, they don't have to prove anything. Just the fact that developers > of project X will be engaged in legal battles instead of developing code, > will be enough to drive volonteers and donations (especially from > commercial enti

Re: MS internal network compromised

2000-10-29 Thread Shlomi Fish
On Sat, 28 Oct 2000, Stanislav Malyshev a.k.a Frodo wrote: > HBH>> Since most of Linux applications are open source - they cannot > HBH>> say it's stolen, cause if they'll say that - then they'll have > HBH>> to show their code and prove that it's the same... > > Not at all. They will claim thei

MS internal network compromised

2000-10-29 Thread erez
  --  Erez Doron Infineon Technologies Savan mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] or [EMAIL PROTECTED]   And who said that microsoft was really compormised, maybe this is what thay want the world to think. maybe it can be use against Open-Source "Stanislav Malyshev a.k.a Frodo" wrote: > HBH>> Since

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2000-10-29 Thread erez . doron
And who said that microsoft was really compormised, maybe this is what thay want the world to think. maybe it can be use against Open-Source "Stanislav Malyshev a.k.a Frodo" wrote: > HBH>> Since most of Linux applications are open source - they cannot > HBH>> say it's stolen, cause if

Re: MS internal network compromised

2000-10-27 Thread Stanislav Malyshev a.k.a Frodo
HBH>> Since most of Linux applications are open source - they cannot HBH>> say it's stolen, cause if they'll say that - then they'll have HBH>> to show their code and prove that it's the same... Not at all. They will claim their IP was stolen and their code, obtained by illegal means, was used in

Re: MS internal network compromised

2000-10-27 Thread Hetz Ben Hamo
Sorry, but you're wrong.. Since most of Linux applications are open source - they cannot say it's stolen, cause if they'll say that - then they'll have to show their code and prove that it's the same... Hetz "Stanislav Malyshev a.k.a Frodo" wrote: > > AJ>> Apparantely, the Windows and MS Offic

Re: MS internal network compromised

2000-10-27 Thread Stanislav Malyshev a.k.a Frodo
AJ>> Apparantely, the Windows and MS Office source code was stolen (I'm not AJ>> joking here). AJ>> AJ>> Take a look at MSNBC: AJ>> http://www.msnbc.com/news/481927.asp Actually, this is very bad news. Now nothing stops Microsoft lawyers from twarting any compatibility effort not driven by Micro

MS internal network compromised

2000-10-27 Thread Aviram Jenik
Apparantely, the Windows and MS Office source code was stolen (I'm not joking here). Take a look at MSNBC: http://www.msnbc.com/news/481927.asp (or open your TV and listen to CNN/BBC) - Aviram = To unsubscribe, send mail to [EM