[1003] in Cypherpunks
Re: CERT: the letter from CERT to berkeley.edu admin
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Ross E. Jones)
Wed Jun 9 10:17:48 1993
Date: Wed, 9 Jun 1993 07:59:59 -0600 (MDT)
From: "Ross E. Jones" <rjones@salsa.abq.bdm.com>
Reply-To: rjones@salsa.abq.bdm.com
To: cypherpunks@toad.com, smb@research.att.com
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
