Re: KDE v. Gnome

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From: Dave Blake
Date: Mon, 05 Oct 1998 00:00

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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.

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Dave Blake
dblake@phy.ucsf.edu

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From: dblake@dylan.ucsf.edu (Dave Blake )
Subject: Re: KDE v. Gnome
Date: 1998/10/05
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