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Bill Unruh <unruh@physics.ubc.ca> wrote:
>No. There is loads of case law stating that reverse engineering of a
>patented process or of a "trade secret" (as long as you did not sign a
>non-disclosure agreement) is legal.

You don't need to reverse engineer a patented process; you can just
read the patent.  (In practice, a design may be patented and also have
trade secrets, so the patent application would not tell the whole story).

>federal income tax is now legal in the USA despite being non-constitutional.

This, of course, is nonsense -- a Constitutional amendment explicitly
made the income tax legal.  People who dispute this fall into two camps:

1. Those who read text that contradicts the income tax, but who don't
know that an amendment overrides all preceding text it contradicts.

2. Those who subscribe to a bizarre theory about how the 16th amendment
wasn't properly ratified.

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