From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: andy@i-a.co.uk (Andy Jeffries)
Cc: pollard@tomcat.admin.navo.hpc.mil (Jesse Pollard),
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Difficulties in interoperating with Windows
Date: Wed, 9 Jan 2002 16:22:48 +0000 (GMT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <E16OLV2-0001an-00@the-village.bc.nu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20020109152823.62f65b7c.andy@i-a.co.uk> from "Andy Jeffries" at Jan 09, 2002 03:28:23 PM
> for the purposes of interoperability surely that is final. As the
> contract would have been between Microsoft UK and you (note I'm only
> discussing the UK and we don't have an equivalent of the DMCA here)
I would not perform such work in the united kingdom. Perform it in a free
country. Reverse engineering that might offend a large corporation in the UK
is only viable if you have five million pounds to hand, a law firm and a
year to kill.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-01-09 16:12 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-01-09 9:37 Andy Jeffries
2002-01-09 15:06 ` Jesse Pollard
2002-01-10 3:32 ` David Schwartz
2002-01-09 15:28 ` Andy Jeffries
2002-01-09 16:04 ` Jesse Pollard
2002-01-09 16:22 ` Alan Cox [this message]
2002-01-09 16:29 ` Andy Jeffries
2002-01-09 19:06 ` Jesse Pollard
2002-01-09 16:34 ` Andy Jeffries
2002-01-09 17:09 ` Alan Cox
2002-01-10 8:34 ` Helge Hafting
2002-01-09 16:14 ` Anton Altaparmakov
2002-01-09 16:48 ` Jesse Pollard
2002-01-09 17:17 ` Alan Cox
2002-01-09 17:29 ` Anton Altaparmakov
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