RE: Serious breach of copyright -- First post

2006-06-18 Thread mail.matt.mcdonald
I think the distinction here is that while the facts themselves are not open to copyright, the actual statement of them is. Therefore I can write a book explaining that "2 + 2 = 4, that is if you take two apples and two oranges and put them in a bushel, you have four pieces of fruit in the bushel"

RE: Why is not more FreeBSD software written in C++?

2006-04-18 Thread mail.matt.mcdonald
I agree that if you're worried about buffer overruns, etc then managed code is the way to go. C#2.0 especially seems to be more and more viable as an all out c++ replacement since it seems to have an analog to all of the major language features of c++, plus a lot of added syntactic sugar. The onl

RE: [scam: You have received a postcard !]

2006-04-10 Thread mail.matt.mcdonald
Is it just me or is the amount of phishing on FreeBSD lists getting to be absurd? -Matt McDonald -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of James S Sent: Monday, April 10, 2006 6:18 PM To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: [scam: You have rece