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- From: djenner@arthur.Eng.Sun.COM (Doug Jenner)
- Newsgroups: alt.sources
- Subject: Re: Looking for the login programme source
- Message-ID: <19233@exodus.Eng.Sun.COM>
- Date: 29 Aug 91 17:18:34 GMT
- References: <19211@exodus.Eng.Sun.COM> <1991Aug29.100103.4659@rcvie.co.at>
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- Organization: Sun Microsystems, Mt. View, Ca.
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- In article <1991Aug29.100103.4659@rcvie.co.at> cc_paul@rcvie.co.at (Wolf Paul) writes:
- >djenner@arthur.Eng.Sun.COM (Doug Jenner) writes:
- >> Of course it is. But asking for proprietary source in a public forum is
- >> just as ridiculous.
- >
- >As I recall, the original poster was French. Therefore you should make
- >allowances for a certain imprecision of expression.
- >
- >I am sure he meant to ask for the source to ** A ** login program for SunOS,
- >not the source to ** THE ** login program for SunOS, i.e. the proprietary
- >version owned by Sun Microsystems.
- >
- >Very few people would be so stupid as to ask for proprietary source
- >in a public forum. Even we Europeans have more sense.
- >
-
- My apologies. It was not my intention to insult the intelligence of anyone,
- let alone the population of the entire European continent. I was merely
- pointing out that *as written* the original posting was requesting source
- code copyrighted by my employer. Since the written word is the medium through
- which we converse here, the motivations behind the written word can only
- be inferred. As the poster requested "SunOS" source, rather than
- SunOS-like source, the only assumption I could make was that the original
- poster wanted someone to violate their source license agreement by providing
- SunOS source code. If, indeed, the poster wants only BSD/SunOS style source,
- then this clarification is sufficient to cause me to apologize to both
- you and the original poster.
-
- Incidentally, and for the record: My words are, of course, my own. Sun
- Microsystems, Inc. may or may not share my views. The mere fact of my
- being an employee of that firm does not give any other significance to my
- opinions.
-
-
- D.
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