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Article #1415Re: KDE v. Gnome
From: Klaus Schilling
Date: Mon, 05 Oct 1998 00:00
Date: Mon, 05 Oct 1998 00:00
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dblake@dylan.ucsf.edu (Dave Blake ) writes: > In article <6vas4k$7tq$1@holly.csv.warwick.ac.uk>, Mr S A Penny wrote: > > >if you have a copy of the windows95 licence, I suggest you read it carefully, > >it sayt that your use of it is only under the condition that you make no attempt > >to reverse-engineer it, don't let anyone else use it, install it on anyone > >else's computer etc.etc.etc... > > They would have to have patented the ideas in Word to make it > illegal to reverse engineer it. > > And I don't think that happened, for the most part. Just because > they say you can't doesn't mean you can't - especially when it > flies in the face of patent law. Irrelevant as long as no one can afford better advocats than Bill of Borg. Klaus Schilling
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 1103af,4460b3faefba3773 X-Google-Attributes: gid1103af,public X-Google-Thread: 1025b4,942a0596db2b8174 X-Google-Attributes: gid1025b4,public X-Google-Thread: f4bda,4460b3faefba3773 X-Google-Attributes: gidf4bda,public X-Google-Thread: fcfb9,942a0596db2b8174 X-Google-Attributes: gidfcfb9,public X-Google-Thread: 10d8ad,4460b3faefba3773 X-Google-Attributes: gid10d8ad,public From: Klaus Schilling <Klaus.Schilling@home.ivm.de> Subject: Re: KDE v. Gnome Date: 1998/10/05 Message-ID: <8790iusxkd.fsf@ivm.de> X-Deja-AN: 398126058 Sender: klaus@debian References: <qj78u6.mf.ln@wog.interlog.com> <6uqc2e$qck$1@m1.cs.man.ac.uk> <907102850snz@vision25.demon.co.uk> <6v0uut$63l$1@aziraphale.demon.co.uk> <6vas4k$7tq$1@holly.csv.warwick.ac.uk> <slrn71hu0p.3pi.dblake@dylan.ucsf.edu> Organization: IVM GmbH Newsgroups: uk.comp.os.linux,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.x,comp.os.linux.advocacy,gnu.misc.discuss