Re: [OT] RE: UDI and Free Software

Edward S. Marshall (emarshal@logic.net)
Fri, 9 Oct 1998 21:19:07 -0500 (CDT)

On Thu, 8 Oct 1998, Alex Buell wrote:
> On Thu, 8 Oct 1998, Marcin Dalecki wrote:
>
> > Just imagine how EASY it would be to REENGINE a UDI driver written by a
> > sucking vendor, which continuisly defeats sourcecode/docs realese!!!!!!!!
> > It would be almost like having the most accurate doc's there in front of
>
> How? How are you going to do that with a binary-only driver? Enquiring
> minds would like to know. (and before you suggest disassembling, it's
> illegal)

Maybe in your country and mine...but there's a whole world out there
that's already realized how foolish such laws are.

(Backwards software laws, backwards crypto export laws, backwards patent
laws..."Made In America", I guess...)

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