Thank you. Perhaps a voice different than mine will be more clear.
Hank On 10/26/05, Till Schneidereit <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Even if Macromedia made promises or statement on this list or elsewhere it > > would mean nothing and you are quite right, they could pull the plug at any > > time. > > How so? Don't you think that Microsoft would have pulled the plug on projects > like Wine, Samba, Mono, etc. a long time ago if it was that easy? > As Pamela Jones wrote in the article Mike posted the link to, reverse > engineering _is_ legal, as long as it is done for the sake of > interoperability: > > "Both white box reverse engineering (decompiling the object code to reveal > its structure and figure out the interface specifications for > interoperability purposes) and black box reverse engineering (where you only > look at a program's input and outputs) are legal normally in the US, if the > goal is interoperability." [1] > > Other than that, I can see no grounds for any legal action at all - short of > everyone's darling, the software patents, but that joker's for companies who > have a failing business model and don't care about developers outright hating > them at all. (*cough*SCO, forgent*cough*) > > > cheers, > till > > [1] http://lwn.net/Articles/134642/ > > _______________________________________________ > osflash mailing list > [email protected] > http://osflash.org/mailman/listinfo/osflash_osflash.org > _______________________________________________ osflash mailing list [email protected] http://osflash.org/mailman/listinfo/osflash_osflash.org
