> On Mon, 30 Mar 1998, Alan Cox wrote:
>
> > > If you, or others, have "busted their secret codes", it makes no
> > > difference. You will not be able to use this hard-won knowledge except
> > > for your personal entertainment.
> >
> > You mean you find saying you were wrong tricky. Ghostscript drives those
> > HP printers like a champ with no windows around.
> But what about the legalese? If the protocols are prioprietary to M$ then you
> can't legally use them in a free product? So what's the use of the fact that
> you know how the protocol works?
Not true.... In most places reverse eng. for compatibility is 100% legal.
-
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@vger.rutgers.edu