On Tue, 29 Feb 2000 16:00:07 -0500, KU4QD <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
>That isn't the main problem issue. There are two: one is that
>reverse engineering would become illegal.
UCITA does NOT forbid reverse engineering. This is a common myth.
What UCITA does is make enforceable covenants that may prohibit,
amongst other things, reverse engineering. It's arguable that such
covenants are _already_ enforceable.
>So... you'd have to rip out your MS Office filters and the like from
>things like KOffice and Star Office, in effect guaranteeing the MS
>monopoly. For Adobe, that means .pdf, a proprietary format, could
>only be offered by Adobe.
This is completely incorrect and expresses a serious lack of
understanding of what UCITA would actually do.
Kelly
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