[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
> "Karl J. Runge" wrote:
>
> > What are the legal implications to reverse-engineering their format and
> > making our own clients and servers?
>
> Programmers giveth, and the DMCA taketh away. It's illegal. DeCSS was
> designed for completely legal compatibility reasons, but it was
> outlawed because it threatened the license revenue of the MPAA.
>
I've been wondering about that.
Since Windows is a reverse engineering of Apple, which was a
reverse engineering of Xerox, ...
I heard that Apple did pay Xerox. M$ didn't.
Bob Sparks
Linux mouth
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