NODE 14870b85Re: CERT: the letter from CERT to berkeley.edu admin
"Ross E. Jones" <rjones@salsa.abq.bdm.com>Wed, 9 Jun 93 07:00:54 PDT
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
NODE 481f8d5cCERT: the letter from CERT to berkeley.edu admin
Eric Hughes <hughes@soda.berkeley.edu>Wed, 9 Jun 93 08:04:45 PDT
>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