On Thu, Nov 02, 2000 at 07:44:20PM +1100, Paul Haesler wrote: > Microsoft has never sued Tridge and co. over samba which > would seem to be a closer analogy - A reverse engineered > network protocol, as opposed to a cracked encryption > algorithm.
The protocol wasn't patented. It is supposedly documented in an RFC about NMB. Microsoft doesn't adhere to that standard, so the challenge is that the protocol is really convoluted and hard to deal with, not that there are any legal obstacles. -- #define X(x,y) x##y Peter Cordes ; e-mail: X([EMAIL PROTECTED] , ns.ca) "The gods confound the man who first found out how to distinguish the hours! Confound him, too, who in this place set up a sundial, to cut and hack my day so wretchedly into small pieces!" -- Plautus, 200 BCE
