On Wed, Jun 05, 2002 at 09:27:40AM +0200, Jerome Grimbert wrote: > > Richard Zidlicky makes some magical things to make me read > } > } > Someone pateneted the XOR method of drawing stuff on a screen > } > (non-destructively) a few years back, after it had been used for god knows > } > how long. Whatever happened to 'Prior Knowlege' as a restriction ? It's all > } > down to money in the end. > } > } I think the XOR was only a hypothetical example. There is plenty of > } real cases however. > } > } > The Europeans don't allow that sort of thing - yet ! > } > } I am afraid you are an optimist. > > The american lobby is pushing hard on european comissions.
indeed, and unfortunatelly they are pretty sucessfull. > But just to make things worst, the 'new' DMCA (US laws) explicitely > forbid reverse enginering (decompilation)! currently this doesn't affect me much in Europe, and even in the US I don't see how it is supposed to work. It would be quite impractical and ridiculous if I were not allowed to disassemble the linux kernel because of DMCA. > While speaking of trouble with Richard, I tried to install Linux on > my Q40 (using the boot loader and the latest collection of rpm from > Linux-q40.sourceforge) and I failed miserably to get that working. it is expected to be very "difficult" at the moment. You might use the old linux-Q40 CD with the 2.2.17 kernel which is still somewhere around or wait some time untill I have new installation routines. Richard
