Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!ucsd!sdd.hp.com!decwrl!hayes.fai.alaska.edu!accuvax.nwu.edu!nucsrl!telecom-request From: peter@ficc.ferranti.com (Peter da Silva) Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Re: Precedents Could Be Set in Neidorf Trial Message-ID: <10253@accuvax.nwu.edu> Date: 30 Jul 90 17:30:25 GMT Sender: news@accuvax.nwu.edu Reply-To: peter@ficc.ferranti.com (Peter da Silva) Organization: Xenix Support, FICC Lines: 27 Approved: Telecom@eecs.nwu.edu X-Submissions-To: telecom@eecs.nwu.edu X-Administrivia-To: telecom-request@eecs.nwu.edu X-Telecom-Digest: Volume 10, Issue 530, Message 9 of 11 In article <10154@accuvax.nwu.edu> peter@ficc.ferranti.com I said: > Personally, I'm sure that Neidorf must have done something worth > prosecuting him for ... It occurs to me that this sounds awfully authoritarian. I don't mean it that way. Other information that has been published about the people involved in this has brought up indications that they've had copies of AT&T source code, and things like that. That's certainly illegal, but hardly unusual: the source to "cb" and other AT&T proprietary code has even popped up on the net from time to time. I'm not trying to imply that Craig is getting off on a technicality or any such BS. As I said: > but if they can't find it out or prove it they > should certainly not be hitting him with this bogus 911 file business. That is, they "know" he's done something, but they don't have the proof so they decided to create a crime. Peter da Silva. `-_-' +1 713 274 5180. 'U`