Re: mICQ roundup
On Sun, 16 Feb 2003 16:46, Rico -mc- Gloeckner wrote:
> The URLs you provided are interesting indeed, however they all speak of
> Dataloss, of destroying Data etc.
The first one only referred to stopping production, the implication was that
the software had ceased functioning.
Here's a URL that has a more general discussion of the legal issues. Consider
in particular the publishing issue which could apply here if the time bomb
had made it onto Debian CDs.
http://www.mactech.com/articles/mactech/Vol.09/09.10/TimeBomb/
> I would compare the functionality of Ruedigers "timebomb" as you say
> more with Software which expires after a certain amount of time. This is
> as you might know a quite usual behaviour in the commercial
> Softwareworld.
Such software is documented as doing so. We are not talking about shareware
here, we are talking about software that has a hidden time-bomb.
> I further object against any accusations that Ruediger will ever
> implement harmful or datalosing code intentional.
Why wouldn't he? He has not expressed any plans to avoid doing it again or
any remorse for it.
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