[NTLUG:Discuss] Sourcing Linux

[Darin W. Smith]

On Tue, 5 Aug 2003 22:30:39 -0700 (PDT), Tom Tumelty <tumelty4 at yahoo.com> 
wrote:
> I just remembered something I was told a couple of
> yrs. A friend told me that MS wants to eventually
> verify every piece of code written with its software
> (c/c++/j++/VB/etc...). Supposedly this would mean
> submitting ever piece of code one writes to M$ so they
> could verify it is unique...oops but what happens if
> someone submits something they like and dont
> have....and nobody checks on them....reminds me about
> the story of the fox gaurding the chicken house and
> the fox was not checked on by anyone.
>

Well, that's exactly how Bell Labs stole the patent for the Laser.  The 
patent office and other government agencies (probably DoD) liked what they 
saw and gave it to Bell Labs so they could "discover" it.  It took the 
inventor about 40 years of lawsuits to finally get credit.

Validation programs that are not watched by a guaranteed-neutral reviewer 
are pure evil.

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Darin W. Smith
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