15 Jan
2009
15 Jan
'09
3:31 p.m.
to chime in, but not fully involve myself in this...
A good example is microsoft basic and possibly some of microsofts earliest
works. they were developed on university equipment, and bill gates threw a
fit and took out a full page ad just to call everyone thieves because
of people copying and using it.
On Thu, Jan 15, 2009 at 4:42 PM, Fred Cisin <cisin at xenosoft.com> wrote:
On Thu, 15 Jan 2009, Dan Gahlinger wrote:
But another age old question, who has rights to
code developed on the
universities equipment?
Often the university!
So is it fairly safely abandoned?
Absolutely NOT.
The fact that YOU couldn't easily find the owner does NOT mean that there
isn't one. I'll bet that you didn't even check with county records in all
appropriate counties to confirm whether they were dead or alive, and who
their heirs were.
Another way to look at it - If it was your code,
some small silly thing
you wrote, would you care?
And you think that YOU can determine which things I wrote are "some small
silly thing"?
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Grumpy Ol' Fred cisin at xenosoft.com