On Sun, 16 May 1999, Dean Lombardo wrote:
> Garance A Drosehn wrote:
> >
> > At 3:51 PM +0700 5/12/99, Ustimenko Semen wrote:
> > > Are we going to get this license? I am interested in NTFS
> > > source code a lot...
> >
> > I would be very careful about getting an NT source license if
> > your intention is to write NTFS support for some other operating
> > system. Microsoft is not doing this licensing for the benefit of
> > mankind, they are doing it to attract college-type users to
> > sticking with WinNT over open-source unixes.
> >
> > The last thing we need is some code from WinNT which causes us
> > to be sued by Microsoft...
>
>
> They can't sue - unless, of course, the code is copied verbatim (and
They most definately *CAN* sue. I don't think "can't sue" is something
that applies to the US in any way.
> it's not very likely to be, anyway). Otherwise, it shouldn't be any
> more illegal than reverse engineering the code, and several federal
> appeals courts have held that it is "fair use" to reverse engineer a
> program in order to examine and copy its ideas and any unprotected
> expression.
>
But do we have the money to prove that?
And if we do, wouldn't it be spend on better things?
> Dean
>
Sander
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