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Jon.Paris@halinfo.it wrote: >Isn't it an essential point of a Copyright notice that you can't change >it? Seems to me IBM would be daft to make that possible. Absolutely. A software house I once worked for wrote a bespoke system for the Geneva office of a major U.S. bank. One of the requirements was that it use commitment control throughout. Shortly after we delivered it they complained that there were serious bugs, so we flew out one of our top programmers to fix it free of charge under the terms of our guarantee. Problem 1: they'd decided they didn't want commitment control after all so they'd got their contract programmer Able Baker hack it out. Unfortunately he hadn't realised that this might affect the logic of some of the programs. Problem 2: The copyright notice in every program had somehow changed itself from (C) Copyright Acme Systems Ltd. 1988 to (C) Copyright Able Baker. 1988 We weren't terribly happy. Dave Kahn, ABB Steward Ltd. P.S. The above incident is true, but the names aren't. +--- | This is the Midrange System Mailing List! | To submit a new message, send your mail to MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com. | To subscribe to this list send email to MIDRANGE-L-SUB@midrange.com. | To unsubscribe from this list send email to MIDRANGE-L-UNSUB@midrange.com. | Questions should be directed to the list owner/operator: david@midrange.com +---
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