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From: mak@ndc.UUCP (Mike Klaus)
Newsgroups: news.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Is the worm copyrighted?
Summary: No, but there is a mechanic's lien against it...
Message-ID: <252@ndc.UUCP>
Date: 28 Nov 88 20:12:47 GMT
References: <16683@agate.BERKELEY.EDU> <245@ndc.UUCP> <5497@medusa.cs.purdue.edu>
Organization: NDC Systems, Monrovia, CA
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In article <5497@medusa.cs.purdue.edu>, spaf@cs.purdue.edu (Gene Spafford) writes:
> 1.  What is/was .crossover?


   It's a process.  It qualifies as a life-form.  Right now, it's doing
   four-letter anagram wars.

   And, yes, I know the difference between a terminal and a display.  
   Guess who worked on the generalized display generator?  
   (also, guess who made it FUBAR *not me* !  Someone at the central ring...)  

   BTW, .crossover doesn't like   Ver   .4
> 
> 2. The worm, per se, is not illegal.  Use of the worm on someone
> else's machines probably is, although a court of law has yet to
> decide that.  In a similar fashion, owning a gun is not illegal
> (in general), but shooting someone with it usually is.

     What about all of the systems that have owned a copy of the helper
     ever since 1977 (WW VII: core wars that crossed over to other systems) ?
							mak


  famous quote from 1969: "do you want to win the war, or not?" - Tricky Dick