I believe that you are misinterpreting what Borland has the right to claim copyright over. They have NO rights over the source code that you write. Only you and possibly your employer have rights over the source code. By allowing you to distribute binaries of your code, they have given you carte blanche. This means that you are allowed to distribute binaries containing code within the proprietary libraries that they provided with the compiler. The only thing that you are not allowed to do is reverse engineer their code for compilation under a non-Borland compiler. While I believe in open-source software, for a proprietary license, this is not very restrictive.
The subject on this mail is actually quite deceiving. Entrapment is not illegalm rather it makes it difficult if not impossible to prosecute the perpetrator. If all you are considering is that you want to have a place to keep the script-kiddies busy, then have a good time. Otherwise, I would suggest trying to keep your box as secure as possible so that you never have to question how experienced your hacker really is.
The first amendment of the constitution guarantees the freedom of speech to the citizens of the United States of America. While this right has been infringed to degrees for minors when dealing with public safety issues, this proposal goes over the line.
It was bad enough during the fifties when we hunted for communists that we were absolutely convinced were going to destroy the country. Last time I checked that wild goose chase did nothing but hurt this nation. That hunt only involved a few hundred people. Are we going to search and "report" the hundreds of thousands of high school students who are depressed or a little bit different from the norm? Why are we committing a war against our own students. Have we reached the point as a society where parents, teachers, administrators and security guards really think that it is no longer their job to look after their students? We all know that kids grow up faster today than they did thirty years ago, but if we are saying that high school is so worthless to students that all they have to do is police each other, then it is time to graduate or students early and send them to college at 15 or 16.
Another question for Pinkerton: Has it occurred to them that this hotline could actually spur more violence in the schools they are striving to protect? I could see as a prank one student reports another student to the hotline claiming that he is suicidal or danerous to the school. If the student who was reported figured out who reported him (as you know he would), then he might very well use violence to get back at him. At the very least he would report him to the hotline, turning their hotline into the battleground of teen gangs.
We MUST realize that there are no easy answers to the violence in our nation. It seems that we as a society want more guns, more violent content on television and in video games, yet want less violence in our lives. These are mutually exclusive goals.I am not for censorship, and I understand those who want to have their guns. This is a case of the worst 1% of the population ruining it for the rest of us. But that is something we must understand before we go any further with this ridiculous nonsense.
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I believe that you are misinterpreting what Borland has the right to claim copyright over. They have NO rights over the source code that you write. Only you and possibly your employer have rights over the source code. By allowing you to distribute binaries of your code, they have given you carte blanche. This means that you are allowed to distribute binaries containing code within the proprietary libraries that they provided with the compiler. The only thing that you are not allowed to do is reverse engineer their code for compilation under a non-Borland compiler. While I believe in open-source software, for a proprietary license, this is not very restrictive.
The subject on this mail is actually quite deceiving. Entrapment is not illegalm rather it makes it difficult if not impossible to prosecute the perpetrator. If all you are considering is that you want to have a place to keep the script-kiddies busy, then have a good time. Otherwise, I would suggest trying to keep your box as secure as possible so that you never have to question how experienced your hacker really is.
The first amendment of the constitution guarantees the freedom of speech to the citizens of the United States of America. While this right has been infringed to degrees for minors when dealing with public safety issues, this proposal goes over the line.
It was bad enough during the fifties when we hunted for communists that we were absolutely convinced were going to destroy the country. Last time I checked that wild goose chase did nothing but hurt this nation. That hunt only involved a few hundred people. Are we going to search and "report" the hundreds of thousands of high school students who are depressed or a little bit different from the norm? Why are we committing a war against our own students. Have we reached the point as a society where parents, teachers, administrators and security guards really think that it is no longer their job to look after their students? We all know that kids grow up faster today than they did thirty years ago, but if we are saying that high school is so worthless to students that all they have to do is police each other, then it is time to graduate or students early and send them to college at 15 or 16.
Another question for Pinkerton: Has it occurred to them that this hotline could actually spur more violence in the schools they are striving to protect? I could see as a prank one student reports another student to the hotline claiming that he is suicidal or danerous to the school. If the student who was reported figured out who reported him (as you know he would), then he might very well use violence to get back at him. At the very least he would report him to the hotline, turning their hotline into the battleground of teen gangs.
We MUST realize that there are no easy answers to the violence in our nation. It seems that we as a society want more guns, more violent content on television and in video games, yet want less violence in our lives. These are mutually exclusive goals.I am not for censorship, and I understand those who want to have their guns. This is a case of the worst 1% of the population ruining it for the rest of us. But that is something we must understand before we go any further with this ridiculous nonsense.