On Wed, Jul 15, 2009 at 11:40 AM, Ann W.
Harrison<aharrison@...> wrote:

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> Michael D. Spence wrote:
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>>> ... since the great politically/correct
>
>>> imbroglio. But
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>> What was the GP/C I?
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> After InterBase was released as open source, someone
> (Frank Schlottmann-Goedde?) found a hard-coded superuser
> account. Basically, anybody who read the code could
> take over any InterBase or Firebird database. Jim
> built patches that could be applied to any InterBase
> on any platform.
>
> Last night as we were discussing the events of the day,
> we both realized that if we do have a machine readable
> InterBase 1.0 source from an old backup, it belongs to
> Embarcadero. Firebird history starts in July 2000.

Ok then maybe pre 1.0 , and we should talk with them
also it could be nice to have a good license for manuals
yes thouse interbase 6.0 manuals
maybe there is hope

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> cheers,
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> Ann
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