🚀 go-pugleaf

In article <Sep.27.15.48.54.1990.2352@reason.ig.com> mcb@reason.ig.com (Michael C. Berch) writes:

   In the referenced article, nelson@clutx.clarkson.edu (Russ Nelson) writes:
   > Xircom has been distributing a packet driver while violating the copyright
   > on it.  I wrote the skeleton of the Clarkson packet drivers, which is
   > copyrighted under the GNU General Public License.  This copyright requires
   > that code which is linked with mine be available in source form.  I allowed
   > them to require a signed nondisclosure form, provided that source code be
   > given to anyone willing to sign.

   [Michael Berch wonders what in the world I was thinking of when I made that
    agreement.]

I made a mistake.  Xircom thinks that protecting source can protect a
proprietary technique[1].  Given this erroneous belief, I should have
realized that they would never distribute source, even if they told
*me* they would.  I guess they played me for a naive fool.

    [1] One hour with a disassembler revealed their technique.  Clever,
    but not world-shaking.

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--russ (nelson@clutx [.bitnet | .clarkson.edu])  Russ.Nelson@$315.268.6667
It's better to get mugged than to live a life of fear -- Freeman Dyson