Re: Outlawing code disassembly

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From: Dale R. Worley
Date: Tue, 26 Jun 1990 01:58

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Uh, let's not get too impressed with our importance, kids.  The *big*
computer companies sell to big customers whose needs have absolutely
nothing to do with us hackers.  If you don't believe me, call up the
DP director of an insurance company and try to explain to him the
value of X windows.

Also, let's not get impressed with the amount of software hackerdom
produces -- Gnu Emacs contains about 124,000 lines of code, which is
considered a "small" program in the software world.  That's about the
size of a *typical* Cobol program in the business world.  (Ugh!)

Dale

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Subject: Re: Outlawing code disassembly
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