Eric Auer schrieb: >> It's still questionable if it's illegal. >> How can we finally prove that it's illegal or not? > > By reading any law book you can probably find out > that company secrets are not open for free use ;-) > Even if it was somebody else who leaked them first.
On law book there are loads of different opinions. The only binding verdict gives the court and so far no court has judged about that. > Nice that you enjoy laughing about possible legal > loopholes but I would have preferred you to work > for open source instead of explaining us why it > is better to steal than to work... ;-). Again, theft = original is lost and in hands of thief only. The problem with downloading is that things are virtual and the original is still in hands of the original producer. So stealing is probable not the right word. Also again, why do you believe FreeDOS is free of MS-DOS's intellectual property? That's impossible as you implemented a "pretty" compatible operating system. What do you think where the Undocumented DOS knowledge has come from? > Alas it > is a bit too late now - how can we know whether > the "help" you offer is not just copy and paste? This makes me think... *Imagine* *someone* would claim there is MS-DOS' s source code copy & pasted into FreeDOS's source code. What could you do? You would need to stop using FreeDOS as it *probable* contains illegal stuff. On the other hand you have *no way* to confirm whenever it's the truth or not. Everyone trying to find out whenever it is the truth or not will violate itself the law. Isn't this absurd? -mr ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Freedos-devel mailing list Freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel
