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- From: c2a192@ugrad.cs.ubc.ca (Kazimir Kylheku)
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
- Subject: Re: H&S4 errata?
- Date: 3 Apr 1996 08:01:58 -0800
- Organization: Computer Science, University of B.C., Vancouver, B.C., Canada
- Message-ID: <4ju7dmINN2uo@keats.ugrad.cs.ubc.ca>
- References: <4is2p9INNgag@keats.ugrad.cs.ubc.ca> <315D995D.2745@oc.com> <828446804snz@genesis.demon.co.uk> <31616C52.79BC@oc.com>
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- In article <31616C52.79BC@oc.com>, Larry Weiss <lfw@oc.com> wrote:
- >Apparently ANSI is malleable enough to have allowed the fruits of the Ada
- >language standardization process under their label to be freely distributable.
- >In the best case, maybe someone with influence could cut the same deal for C.
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- In the worst case, an hacker armed with \TeX and troff will may out a
- copy just for the sheer subversiveness of the activity.
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- In fact the idea has crossed my mind several times. What's 219 pages of
- typesetting to a vi speed slasher?
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- What could anyone do if the ``freeware'' typesetter source code has been spread
- to countless FTP sites and personal workstations worldwide? It would not even
- be possible to prove who really did it; ascii files don't carry fingerprints or
- DNA traces.
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