Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!cs.utexas.edu!execu!sequoia!balkan!dogface!bei From: bei%dogface@cs.utexas.edu (Bob Izenberg) Newsgroups: comp.org.eff.talk Subject: More creative pricing Message-ID: Date: 5 Feb 91 08:13:04 GMT Lines: 30 Mike Marotta posted the following article to alt.cosuard. [ article from alt.cosuard ] GRID News. ISSN 1054-9315. vol 2 nu 5. February 2, 1991. World GRID Association, P. O. Box 15061, Lansing, MI 48901 USA ---------------------------------------------------------------- Justice on the Electronic Frontier: Lawyers Should be Hanged High for a Fist Full of DRAM Chips -- by Mike Marotta As the author of a book on codes and ciphers, I have an interest in security. As a writer, I am jealous of my First Amendment rights. I recently came across "Uncovering the Mystery of Shadowhawk," by William J. Cook in the May, 1990, issue of SECURITY MANAGEMENT. In that article, as in his prosecution of the hacker, William J. Cook cites the "theft" of the source code for the EMACS editor from an AT&T computer. The code is valued at $10,000. But EMACS is free! In the Steven Levy book, HACKERS: HEROES OF THE COMPUTER REVOLUTION, it says on page 416 that Richard Stallman created EMACS and that he gives it away on the condition that the recipient also give it -- and ANY IMPROVEMENTS -- free. Now, considering what lawyers charge, isn't it a CRIME that when they don't do their homework, YOU (not they) goto jail? [ end of article from alt.cosuard ] How can someone so bad with numbers ever hope to understand a computer? Or its user? -- Bob P.S. Q. How can you tell when a Chicago prosecutor is lying? A. They're using a calculator! Ask Craig Neidorf how funny he thinks that joke is.