Re: FreeBSD vs Linux, Solaris, and NT

[Drew Eckhardt]

In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
>Examiners at the European Patent Office http://www.epo.org tell me:
>       Reverse engineering is legal in Europe, Illegal in USA.

Back in the early nineties, Nintendo sued some one in America
for reverse engineering the circuit included in every cartridge and 
using what they learned to sell cartridges without buying the 
protection chip from them.

Nintendo lost.

If you dig deeper, I believe you'll find cases from the mainframe era 
with similar rulings.



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