Re: CERT: the letter from CERT to berkeley.edu admin
In message Tue, 08 Jun 93 14:13:05 EDT, smb@research.att.com writes:
Based on what you sent out, I confess that I see nothing wrong with CERT's note.
I agree that the rights of people who develop copyrighted software must be respected. This is fundamental to working in software development. My problem with the letter is that CERT did not verify the accusation before it was sent. Friend-to-friend this could be considered a "heads-up", but from a semi-official source such as CERT, this message takes on more of the characteristics of not-so-subtile arm twisting. It resulted in soda being closed down for a while to the detriment of all the users. Ross E Jones BDM, Federal rjones@abq.bdm.com Phone: (505) 848-5733 Fax: (505) 848-4047
It resulted in soda being closed down for a while to the detriment of all the users.
Before the rumor flies to far, soda was not closed down. One directory on the cypherpunks site was locked for less than a week. Had it not been for the intervention of a good friend who is also root on soda to do local politics, that directory might still be locked. The consequences could have been worse. Eric
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