Re: Outlawing code disassembly

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From: Joseph M. Piazza
Date: Fri, 15 Jun 1990 14:44

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In article <JIM.90Jun14120824@baroque.Stanford.EDU> jim@baroque.Stanford.EDU
(James Helman) writes:
>...
>The proposal would apparently prohibit disassembling code in order
>to learn the operational details of proprietary protocols.  
> ...
>DEC, IBM and Apple are lobbying for it.  Amdahl, Fujitsu, NCR, Unisys
>and a host of others are lobbying to exclude software interfaces from
>the new EC directive and "explicitly permit analysis of software
>products to extract interface information."
>
>Sounds like a serious battle.  I was somewhat surprised to see DEC's
>name next to IBM's and Apple's. ...

	Why are you suprised?  When DEC introduced the Rainbow they didn't
include a program to format floppy disks.  They wanted users to purchase
pre-formated floppies (at a hefty profit).  Their attitude seems to me to be
quite consistant; or is it all just urban folkore?

Flip side,

	joe piazza

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Subject: Re: Outlawing code disassembly
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Date: 15 Jun 90 14:44:19 GMT
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