> The law is the law. It is written. People like myself have studied > this specific area of the law both for defensive and offensive > purposes. Hearing from MM what they intend to do is not hearing what > the legal situation is. The law is the law regardless of what MM does. > And the law and the precedent controling case law is pretty clear.
AFAIK, it is pretty clear for protocols. I guess Samba wouldn't be around if not. But the part that interests me the most is figuring out the specs for the new VM, because I see it as a necessary step in order for somebody to step forward and write a compiler. In order for such a compiler to be useful, the specs would have to stand on solid legal ground, in my case, in the EU. Also, it's not always about legal/illegal. It's also about the good relationship the community currently has with Macromedia (not to speak of possibly changing their mind about releasing alpha versions in the future). It's a bit like the relationship with your neighbour, you have an interest to get along, and that sometimes means not to insist on your right. In this case, both sides have an even stronger interest, because there's that huge evil dude who lives down the road... I believe the key paragraph in Mike's post is the one about not setting a precedent of not enforcing IP rights. Even if they wouldn't mind us doing it, or even would see the benefit it would have for everybody affected, they must keep up the possibility to enforce it against third parties which follow completely different interests. mark On 10/26/05, hank williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Along with your own compaints about your own sentence, I will add one more. > > It is wrong. > > The law is the law. It is written. People like myself have studied > this specific area of the law both for defensive and offensive > purposes. Hearing from MM what they intend to do is not hearing what > the legal situation is. The law is the law regardless of what MM does. > And the law and the precedent controling case law is pretty clear. > > Regards > Hank -- http://snafoo.org/ jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ osflash mailing list [email protected] http://osflash.org/mailman/listinfo/osflash_osflash.org
