Author: Vincent Vega
Date: 22:12:47 04/09/00
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On April 08, 2000 at 18:13:16, Rajen Gupta wrote: >Any product that is on the commercial market can be appropriately tested and >reviewed by any reviewer and the results of these tests can then be freely >distrubuted to all interested parties which includes the paying public .That is >the inalienable right of a consumer irrespective of what may have been said on >the licensing agreement. This is not the case in US. License does matter. See all the discussions about DMCA. >It does not matter what Ossi Weiner or anyone threatens-his bluff will not stand >up in any court of law in any democratic country and certainly not in ''the land >of the free'' ie USA. > >I dont see why the SSDF cannot publish the results of comp vs comp games that >invlove ossi weiner products. If i had the time and the resources,i would >certainly test all the milleniun products against other chess programmes and >publish them on the entire world wide web for all to see!! I agree that SSDF should have the right to test any product they want. I'm not a lawyer (brrr) but I think that if the license doesn't prohibit testing, they legally can test it. If it did prohibit testing, it still could be challenged in court with hard to predict results. Note that the status of DMCA could make the difference here.
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