Date: Thu, 21 Dec 2000 23:17:07 -0700 From: Drew Eckhardt <drew@PoohSticks.ORG> To: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD vs Linux, Solaris, and NT Message-ID: <200012220617.eBM6H8h13242@chopper.Poohsticks.ORG> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 22 Dec 2000 02:25:34 %2B0100." <200012220125.eBM1PYp10444@jhs.muc.de>
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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
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