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SubjectRe: That whole "Linux stealing our code" thing
On Sat, Sep 01, 2007 at 09:58:26PM -0400, Casey Dahlin wrote:
> Suppose you saw some other variant of *nix that had some code you wanted
> to use, but there was a gaping security hole in it. Wouldn't you patch
> it before you incorporated it? and would it be your fault if this fix
> made the code not work with the original?
>
> We took the code and fixed a gaping security vulnerability that appeared
> within the opening comment. We DO care who does what with our code, and
> we fully intend to cover our balls.

Who's "we" and would you mind showing your contributions to the tree?
git doesn't seem to find them in 2.5.0-to-current for some reason...
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