From owner-freebsd-chat Thu Jan 27 21: 2:49 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mail.enteract.com (mail.enteract.com [207.229.143.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 14B3014C2D for ; Thu, 27 Jan 2000 21:02:47 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dscheidt@enteract.com) Received: from shell-1.enteract.com (dscheidt@shell-1.enteract.com [207.229.143.40]) by mail.enteract.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id XAA42451; Thu, 27 Jan 2000 23:02:41 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from dscheidt@enteract.com) Date: Thu, 27 Jan 2000 23:02:41 -0600 (CST) From: David Scheidt To: Dann Lunsford Cc: W Gerald Hicks , freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Sun release source code for Solaris 8 In-Reply-To: <20000127205026.B55486@greycat.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Thu, 27 Jan 2000, Dann Lunsford wrote: > On Thu, Jan 27, 2000 at 03:00:51PM -0800, W Gerald Hicks wrote: > > > > > > I suspect, when Sun releases the source for Slowlaris, that we will hear > > > the sound of a lot of hackers getting physically sick from reading it. > > > > > > > I have more fear of hackers getting *legally* sick from reading it ;-) > > > I think I'd enjoy this more if I knew what you meant :-). Really. > > You think there's going to be some sort of legal gotcha in the > Slowlaris source? Or what? I can see there may be intellectual property rights issues. Solaris does some things better than the free UNIXes, like SMP. Even if the technology used is well known in the literature, there may be concerns that people doing work on other systems are stealing the Solaris implementation. How likely this depends on the license (which I haven't seen) and also on Sun's strictness in its interpertation and enforcement. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message