Author: Albert Silver
Date: 07:21:41 01/22/06
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On January 22, 2006 at 02:38:49, Uri Blass wrote: >On January 22, 2006 at 00:18:52, Robert Hyatt wrote: > >>On January 20, 2006 at 17:23:00, Uri Blass wrote: >> >>> >>>It is illegal to do it. >>>I doubt if all of them do not respect the law. >>> >> >> >>You and others keep saying this. But it is _not_ true. Please cite any U.S. >>or international law that specifically and explicitly makes this a criminal act. >> "reverse-engineering" has been adjudicated as perfectly legal in both US and >>international courts. One can't "copy" the code due to copyright. But one can >>certainly read, study, and learn from it... > >I guess that I was wrong but the idea that people can learn from the code of the >commercial programs is certainly not the idea behind the commercial programs. > >If this is the target they can release the source directly and not release only >an exe file. > >Uri Yes, to be honest, this post helped influence my own post on the subject. Still, I only asked about the subject, which somehow got turned into my "accusations" or even my "attack on Donninger". Sigh. Albert
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