On Saturday 25 November 2006 19:48, Les Mikesell wrote: > On Sat, 2006-11-25 at 20:11, grumpy wrote: > > > [2] IANAL, so I don't know whether such a fishing expedition > > > is legal (you can acquire the code with this intent without > > > going to court), but in practice it's hard to prevent anyway, > > > and there's nothing really unfair about it. > > > > I remember a talk I attended about Reverse Engineering > > There are some well tested rules that you have to follow...but it is > > possible > > Perhaps you are confusing copyrights with patents. With patents > it doesn't matter if you invent the same technique yourself > with no exposure to the original - you still can't use it without > a license from the owner. Linux is a reverse engineered variant of UNIX or was originally That's why Linus wrote it he couldn't afford a Unix licnse > > -- > Les Mikesell > lesmikesell@xxxxxxxxx
