Scripsit Henning Makholm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> I thin you don't understand which kind of reverse engineering I'm
> talking about. I'm afraid I am not able to be any clearer without
> repeating myself.
Um, sorry for temporarily misplacing my temper here. I see now that I
have indeed expressed myself ambguously. I originally wrote something
like
Before we begin a clean-room reimplementation, we should ask
Apple for permission to do foo.
Most readers have understood that to mean "we cannot do a clean-room
reimplementation without permission to do foo", and tried to tell me
that this is wrong, which indeed it is.
What I really meant was
Doing foo is easier and safer than a clean-room reimplementation,
but would need permission from Apple. We should not begin
spending effort on a clean-room reimplementation until we have
reason to believe that Apple won't let us do foo instead.
Does that make my subsequent comments clearer?
--
Henning Makholm "og de står om nissen Teddy Ring."
