jeroen, could you give us some more details on that law, perhaps some
pointers to documents - i could have our law department check that out
/k
Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai([EMAIL PROTECTED])@Sun, Feb 20, 2000 at 04:04:00PM +0100:
> -On [20000220 14:14], Doug Rabson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> >On Sun, 20 Feb 2000, Karsten W. Rohrbach wrote:
> >
> >> i just messaged the guys from yamaha japan for specs on their pci audio
> >> chipsets to get some decent documentation to start torturing those ymf744
> >> soundcards. no response. i mailed again. same result. do they actually
> >> read their mail or is this an uncommon thing in .jp?
> >
> >I have had more-or-less the same experience. I did get a response which
> >completely misunderstood what I was asking and assumed I wanted the
> >source code to their windows driver. My reply explaining that I really
> >just wanted documentation went unanswered. Sigh.
>
> Well Doug,
>
> you're in the UK, so part of the European Community.
>
> And since you requested information from Yamaha and got none, you are
> now legally clean of action due to the law that you may
> disassemble/reverse engineer their drivers to obtain the information you
> need to program the driver.
>
> For once, a cool law in Europe.
>
> --
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