From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Dec 21 22:17:11 2000 From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Dec 21 22:17:10 2000 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from chopper.Poohsticks.ORG (chopper.poohsticks.org [63.227.60.73]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7C56737B400 for ; Thu, 21 Dec 2000 22:17:09 -0800 (PST) Received: from chopper.Poohsticks.ORG (drew@localhost.poohsticks.org [127.0.0.1]) by chopper.Poohsticks.ORG (8.10.1/8.10.1) with ESMTP id eBM6H8h13242 for ; Thu, 21 Dec 2000 23:17:08 -0700 Message-Id: <200012220617.eBM6H8h13242@chopper.Poohsticks.ORG> To: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD vs Linux, Solaris, and NT In-reply-to: Your message of "Fri, 22 Dec 2000 02:25:34 +0100." <200012220125.eBM1PYp10444@jhs.muc.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-ID: <13238.977465827.1@chopper.Poohsticks.ORG> Date: Thu, 21 Dec 2000 23:17:07 -0700 From: Drew Eckhardt Sender: drew@chopper.Poohsticks.ORG Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In message <200012220125.eBM1PYp10444@jhs.muc.de>, jhs@jhs.muc.de writes: >Examiners at the European Patent Office http://www.epo.org tell me: > Reverse engineering is legal in Europe, Illegal in USA. Back in the early nineties, Nintendo sued some one in America for reverse engineering the circuit included in every cartridge and using what they learned to sell cartridges without buying the protection chip from them. Nintendo lost. If you dig deeper, I believe you'll find cases from the mainframe era with similar rulings. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message