From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Feb 23 18:23:29 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from peach.ocn.ne.jp (peach.ocn.ne.jp [210.145.254.87]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AE2C537BAA0 for ; Wed, 23 Feb 2000 18:23:25 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dcs@newsguy.com) Received: from newsguy.com (p59-dn02kiryunisiki.gunma.ocn.ne.jp [211.0.245.124]) by peach.ocn.ne.jp (8.9.1a/OCN) with ESMTP id LAA06834; Thu, 24 Feb 2000 11:23:04 +0900 (JST) Message-ID: <38B490FF.C9FBCC56@newsguy.com> Date: Thu, 24 Feb 2000 11:01:35 +0900 From: "Daniel C. Sobral" X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (Win98; I) X-Accept-Language: en,pt-BR,ja MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Victor Ivanov Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: yamaha japan relationships anyone? References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Victor Ivanov wrote: > > If I have the drivers and disassemble them "real-time" directly from the > files (dlls, etc) and view the 'source' on the screen what is the > difference between this and viewing the 'source' on the printer? and how > can you recognise the exact source when it is assembler and everything is > so similar. And what about reading the hex dump :). What is 'a copy'? > And what abot 'I don't know, it just worked. Really! cat /dev/random > > ~/drivers.tgz' :) > Anyway, how can one proof you've done something illegal? Witness depositions, records, this sort of stuff. Don't try to dismiss laws as being senseless. They are still laws, and they will still be enforced against you if you step on the wrong toes, and whether you think they are senseless or not will not mean *a damn thing* to the people whose entires lives revolve around applying them. -- Daniel C. Sobral (8-DCS) dcs@newsguy.com dcs@freebsd.org "If you consider our help impolite, you should see the manager." To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message