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In article <slrn71hu0p.3pi.dblake@dylan.ucsf.edu>,
	dblake@phy.ucsf.edu 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.

not true, the licence doesn't explicitly make it illegal to RE anything, but
makes it impossible to do without overstepping the boundaries of the conditions
of purchase which means that by REing you are breaking the law even if it is
not actually illegal just to RE something...

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