Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!clyde!att!rutgers!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!bloom-beacon!think!ames!elroy!cit-vax!ndc!mak 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 Lines: 24 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