On Monday 30 March 2009 03:28, Michael Reichenbach wrote: > Eric Auer schrieb: <snip> > > This makes me think... *Imagine* *someone* would claim there is MS-DOS' > s source code copy & pasted into FreeDOS's source code. > > What could you do? You would need to stop using FreeDOS as it *probable* > contains illegal stuff. On the other hand you have *no way* to confirm > whenever it's the truth or not. > > Everyone trying to find out whenever it is the truth or not will violate > itself the law. Isn't this absurd? > > -mr > <snip>
FWIW, I once had someone explain the way they discovered a case of plagiarism - the person who was accused of plagiarism couldn't explain where they got the source code frm. They had no story of working through the problem themselves and/or seeing something in someone else's source code and squirrelling the knowledge away, then pulling it out because it seemed to fit, or anything else like that. I think Pat Villani's The FreeDOS Kernel - as with Michael Podanoffsky's Dissecting DOS - and a pile of other DOS-alike OSes answers that, as their stories of how they got their ideas, are all different, and all gell. Just my 0.02c Wesley Parish -- Clinersterton beademung, with all of love - RIP James Blish ----- ----- Mau e ki, he aha te mea nui? You ask, what is the most important thing? Maku e ki, he tangata, he tangata, he tangata. I reply, it is people, it is people, it is people. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Freedos-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel
