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Vladimir M. Zakharychev wrote:
> As you may be aware, in some legislations reverse engineering
> is not prohibited under some circumstances and any explicit
> prohibition of RE in a license agreement is waived. Things change
> in this area following the pressure from software vendors, but
> some countries still allow RE regarless if it's prohibited in the
> license agreement. Speaking more generally, isn't the whole
> point of science to reverse-engineer the universe? Do gods and
> deities prohibit reverse-engineering their creations? :)
They weren't too happy about the engineering in the first place: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prometheus
jg
-- @home.com is bogus. Then there's hubris...Received on Wed Jun 21 2006 - 18:29:30 CDT