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- From: peter@taronga.com (Peter da Silva)
- Subject: Re: Poisoned textbooks and net articles?
- Message-ID: <DR9I8Y@taronga.com>
- Organization: Taronga Park BBS
- References: <7154@skye.ed.ac.uk> <1992Aug12.041630@eklektix.com> <7172@skye.ed.ac.uk>
- Date: Thu, 13 Aug 1992 02:12:12 GMT
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- In article <7172@skye.ed.ac.uk> jeff@aiai.ed.ac.uk (Jeff Dalton) writes:
- >(2) Suppose I find out about an algorithm by reading a textbook.
- >How much does my implementation have to differ from the one in
- >the book? Should I stay away from textbooks that give code and
- >look for ones that give only informal or mathematical descriptions?
-
- Well, at least one program was removed from the net after someone at
- AT&T claimed the author had stolen the troff hyphenation code. The
- author claims he implemented it from scratch based on a technical paper
- he read.
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- So even if you're in the right it doesn't mean they won't sue you.
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- Peter da Silva, Taronga Park BBS, Houston, TX +1 713 568 0480/1032
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