On Sun, 30 Oct 2005 00:51, Henrik Sundberg wrote: > 2005/10/29, Timothy Stockdale <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > Greetings, > > Thanks for your product. I was just wondering whether or not this is > > completely legal. Even using it to open certain Microsoft files? (Word, > > Powerpoint, Excel) > > I'm also uncertain. Is the reversed engineering ,used to construct the > import export filters, completely legal?
The problem here is that the term "reverse engineering" describes a way of working out a solution to a given problem - in this case the proprietary file formats of a proprietary office suite. But the ways and methods of "reverse engineering" happen to be the same as used by scientists engaging in scientific enquiry, just applied to a human artifact instead. To outlaw "reverse engineering" completely is to revert to a pre-Olduvan industry, and I doubt most people would like that. "They were saying we should be closed as the Fir, an expression of plant - and they why I'm glad they up on them firs!" Some wisdom on the matter, courtesy of emacs meta x dissociated-press! ;) Wesley Parish > /Henrik > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Clinersterton beademung, with all of love - RIP James Blish ----- Mau e ki, he aha te mea nui? You ask, what is the most important thing? Maku e ki, he tangata, he tangata, he tangata. I reply, it is people, it is people, it is people. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
