Re: KDE v. Gnome

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From: Mark Evans
Date: Fri, 09 Oct 1998 00:00

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Klaus Schilling <Klaus.Schilling@home.ivm.de> wrote:
> dblake@dylan.ucsf.edu (Dave Blake ) writes:

>> In article <6vas4k$7tq$1@holly.csv.warwick.ac.uk>, Mr S A Penny wrote:
>> 
>> >if you have a copy of the windows95 licence, I suggest you read it carefully,
>> >it sayt that your use of it is only under the condition that you make no attempt
>> >to reverse-engineer it, don't let anyone else use it, install it on anyone
>> >else's computer etc.etc.etc...
>> 
>> They would have to have patented the ideas in Word to make it
>> illegal to reverse engineer it. 
>> 
>> And I don't think that happened, for the most part. Just because
>> they say you can't doesn't mean you can't - especially when it
>> flies in the face of patent law.

> Irrelevant as long as no one can afford better advocats than Bill of Borg.

Or an appropriate legeslature make it relevant :)

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From: Mark Evans <mark@grapefruit.ndirect.co.uk>
Subject: Re: KDE v. Gnome
Date: 1998/10/09
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