Author: Andrew Dados
Date: 19:38:15 08/24/99
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On August 24, 1999 at 22:33:00, Andrew Dados wrote: >On August 24, 1999 at 22:21:45, Tina Long wrote: > >>On August 24, 1999 at 22:08:24, Andrew Dados wrote: >> >>> Tina... even if it was doable it would be most likely legal to write adapter >>>interfacing between King engine and other then CM interface.... >>>-Andrew- >> >>HACKING is most likely Illegal > > Hacking was a wrong term here... >Imagine a fritz 'engine' which would watch Chessmasters board and upon move on >it automatically relayed it to fritz interface back and forth.... This is quite >easily doable and would effectively make CM, Genius, Rebel (if windoze ver shows >up) and all others hook to one interface... any legal problems here? >(Or should I copyright that idea maybe...:) >-Andrew- One should distinguish 'hacking' as breaking protection/copyrights/etc from 'hacking' as extending functionality... Windows for example has some 'undocumented' functions (also DOS had them). MS never tried to sue other companies for using them, which is of course 'hacking'. -Andrew-
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