Date: Tue, 10 Oct 1995 15:08:20 +0100 From: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.tfs.com> To: "David Alderman" <DAVE@persprog.com> Cc: laufen@sol.med.ge.com (Derek Laufenberg x7-4534), freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Subject: Re: xircom cards - any experience? Message-ID: <1695.813334100@critter.tfs.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 10 Oct 1995 09:55:49 EST." <206E12B27B9@novell.persprog.com>
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> [...] If I remember correctly, Xircom > claims you are violating their rights by reverse engineering their > interface specs. [...] At least for people inside the EU this is not the case, the EU has a directive that explicitly allows reverse engineering of "interfaces" in case a spec or description isn't available. :-) Xircom has been on my blacklist ever since they misused the Crynwr source. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | phk@FreeBSD.ORG FreeBSD Core-team. http://www.freebsd.org/~phk | phk@login.dknet.dk Private mailbox. whois: [PHK] | phk@ref.tfs.com TRW Financial Systems, Inc. It will be some time yet before progress goes too far... (Poul Henningsen)
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