On Sun, 2004-12-05 at 15:50, Randy Edwards wrote: ... > While the documentary site claims there were many issues involved, the > only > one I recall at the time was one of simple code piracy. In that, in my view, > there was no doubt. I knew one person who was called to the trial as an > expert witness, and many people who looked at the code; they reported that > there was a large amount of temporary variable names and code that were just > identical. To me, it was a simple case of pirating someone's code, and > despite that the Arc source code was available, it was shareware and was not > public domain.
Pity they didn't have Open Source licensing back then, which would've encouraged this type of innovation. Yes, I was an avid user of PKArc myself back then, and the extra compression *mattered* since storage space was still a premium in those days -- not to mention the looong upload and download times on 12- and 24-Kbaud modems, etc. Looking back, I really don't know how we all managed to live in such small spaces and slow transfer times! :-) -- Fred Mitchell, HydraNuke.com E-Commerce and Hosting Solutions Whatever you want, we'll make it happen (603)557-5986 _______________________________________________ gnhlug-discuss mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss
