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In article <6v0uut$63l$1@aziraphale.demon.co.uk>,
	mark@aziraphale.demon.co.uk (Mark Baker) writes:
>In article <907102850snz@vision25.demon.co.uk>,
>	philh@vision25.demon.co.uk (Phil Hunt) writes:
>
>> Also, no-one should be allowed to one ways of making products 
>> interface to other products or to people, IOW such things as APIs, 
>> GUIs, the RS232 port, etc should not be copyrightable or patentable.
>
>They're not; there is nothing you can do to stop someone reverse engineering
>them and releasing something compatible. However, if you make them complex
>enough, you can make them very difficult to reverse engineer.

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...

SammyTheSnake

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