Dean Lombardo writes: > > 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 > 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.
You're forgetting about possible patent violations... -Archie ___________________________________________________________________________ Archie Cobbs * Whistle Communications, Inc. * http://www.whistle.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
