On Sat, 14 Feb 2004, James Drabb wrote: > Reverse engineering is not illegal in the USA. The DMCA did add extra > crap to the US laws concerning reverse engineering, however it is still > legal, especially for compatibility purposes. Why do you think it is OK > for Open Office to work with MS Office files? How do you think we got > Samba? I don't know about MS Office file formats, but Samba was at least helped by the *initial* smb being published as a standard... -- Sam Barnett-Cormack Software Developer | Student of Physics & Maths UK Mirror Service (http://www.mirror.ac.uk) | Lancaster University
