Re: The i2o Bus: A Conspiracy Against Free Software?

Patrick St. Jean (psj@cgmlarson.com)
Fri, 18 Jul 1997 11:58:02 -0500 (CDT)

On Fri, 18 Jul 1997, Peter Nagy wrote:
> You are allowed to reverse engineer the product, write an interface
> docs AND make it public. And anyone else is free to make a competing
> product based solely on the docs.
>

Exactly! There is NOTHING illegal about flipping the switches and pushing
the buttons to figure out how something does what it says it does, UNLESS
(AFAIK) it is patented, but I think we've already covered that...

Pat

-- 
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| Patrick St. Jean                                          psj@cgmlarson.com |
| Programmer & Systems Administrator                     +1 713-977-4177 x106 |
| Larson Software Technology                         http://www.cgmlarson.com |
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+