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Subject: Re: programmers alert - pirating software

Author: Mike Byrne

Date: 21:29:40 09/05/02

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On September 06, 2002 at 00:17:54, Dave Gomboc wrote:

>On September 06, 2002 at 00:05:26, Mike Byrne wrote:
>
>>somebody is now trying to pirate your software - read the post @ r.g.c.c here
>>
>>
>>http://groups.google.com/groups?dq=&hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&group=rec.games.chess.computer&selm=1031266218.490879%40spynews4
>>
>>sourceforge.net is owned by a company called VA Software which trades under the
>>Nasdaq as LNUX
>>
>>the management team is listed here
>>
>>http://www.vasoftware.com/company/management/
>>
>>their directors are listed here
>>
>>http://www.vasoftware.com/company/board.php
>>
>>give this to your attorney's and let them go after 'em
>
>
>You want people to send lawyers after sourceforge.net because one of the people
>who hosts their open-source software development there may be doing illegal
>things with it?  Sounds like using TNT to swat a fly.  Do you realise how many
>different projects are hosted by sourceforge?!?!?  I didn't think so.  Perhaps
>you should instead recommend that the lawyers go after the individual, and
>merely ask VA Software to pull the plug on the guy's webspace?
>
>Dave

my suggestion was tonge in cheek - what they do with it is up to them - if it
was me, I would ask them to pull the plug as the starting point -- and take it
from there ...



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