On Saturday 30 December 2006 06:59, Kenneth Gonsalves wrote: > On 29-Dec-06, at 6:18 PM, Siddhesh Poyarekar wrote: > >> No pure software patents in India. U arent copying code so no > >> copyright violation. U are not cracking someone else's password. > >> so no illegality there. U are just using whatever u paid for. > > > > So does that mean I can buy a copy of Windows and reverse > > engineer it despite the EULA? > > no
The EULA specifically prohibits you from reverse engineering (I havent read their eula nor installed M$ in a long time for myself.). But KG installs M$ and connects to my box. I can reverse engineer - including patented stuff, in India and EU. I did not agree to anything. In USA fair use allows me to reverse engineer and use for myself with any other software / device - but no publishing or disclosing because of patents. It would also be suicide, since i would be a will full offender (penalties several orders of magnitude higher) if something i wrote or invented later were to violate the patent. The ultimate idiocity is when i read the patent from the patent office i am permanently tainted. Copyright allows fair use (reverse engineering) and publishing (i am not reading the code). But patents prevent publishing cause i have learnt something about the tech by reverse engineering. BIG FAT WARNING: CONSULT A LAWYER BEFORE MESSING ABOUT -- Rgds JTD -- http://mm.glug-bom.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxers
