Re: [OT] RE: UDI and Free Software (fwd)

Marcin Dalecki (dalecki@cs.net.pl)
Fri, 9 Oct 1998 12:34:01 -0700 (MST)


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)

No it isn't! Here in Europe disassembling is *EXPLICITLY PERMITTED* by law
in case there isn't otyher way to get doc's!

Yeah the world isn't ruled by the US law :-).

Marcin
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