> > One of which is that [for the purpose of this hypothesis] you had to > > purchase the right to develop using these palladium features.
On Wed, May 12, 2004 at 09:51:11PM +0100, Henning Makholm wrote: > Where does your hyphotesis say that? I just now stated it. I had tried to make the completely proprietary nature of the functionality clear earlier, but presumably I wasn't successful. > And in which jurisdiction can the supplier of Palladium legally forbid > the third party that I give my modified GCC to (and who does not have > any contractual relation with the supplier) from continuing my > development work? If the functionality in question is interoperation with proprietary palladium features, and if everyone who has palladium has to buy into a license that says they won't try to reverse engineer those features, what would this matter? Finally, remember that I'm talking about a hypothetical vaporware palladium which probably has little to do with the palladium product which will presumably be released in real life. -- Raul
