Re: FreeBSD vs Linux, Solaris, and NT

[Sergey Babkin]

Jeremiah Gowdy wrote:
> 
> > Trouble is there is no consistency in the rulings.
> 
> United States Code Title 17 Chapter 12 Section 1201 Subsection (f)
> 
> My basic interpretation of this is, if you legally own a copy of the
> software (firmware is software), you can legally reverse engineer the
> software for the purpose of achiving interoperability.  Therefore, if you
> own a piece of hardware, and you have no driver for the hardware, or the

I wonder, if this provision is overriden by the DMCCA (the new 
proposed and in some places adopted act on software copyrights) ?

-SB


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