On Wed, Jul 04, 2001 at 05:20:32PM -0400, Ruairi Newman wrote:
> I wondered if MS sued someone for mirroring this, would the code then get
> read into the record of the case, and thereby come into the public domain?
Em, wouldn't that loophole effectively mean that you can get something
uncopyrighted by getting somebody else sued over misuse of it?
That sounds like a very basic loophole to leave in... :)
Brian.
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