Troy Rollo wrote:
Perhaps what is needed is "WINE guide to copyright law" that explains how far
you can go?
I think you'd better stay well clear of the grey area, and keep us all
out of trouble. We don't even want to start arguing about what is legal
and what is not, because if it's not immed
On Sun, 15 Feb 2004 11:47, Robert Lunnon wrote:
> Mind you if the leak can be proved deliberate, then a deliberate release of
> such code might render the copyrights ineffective, since Microsoft was
> knowingly giving the code out for distribution
No. Copyright is designed to protect publishe
On Sat, 14 Feb 2004 21:32, Rein Klazes wrote:
> Concerning the trade secret law vs copyright law, there is at least one
> Professor of Law who is disagreeing with you. This is (by US trade
> secret law) not a trade secret anymore:
> http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20040213181852642
The re
Robert Lunnon wrote:
>
> The mere "claim" of an infringement by Microsoft's army of
> lawyers can make
> major corporations quiver in their boots.
That's true. Although, the fact that we have a source control system that
allows us to account for where every piece of code comes from should allow
us
On Friday 13 February 2004 10:27, Jonathan Wilson wrote:
> I heard news that windows 2000 source code was leaked and have seen what
> proports to be a filelist.
>
> Dont know if its genuine but for everyones sake I suggest that all people
> here completly ignore it (same as I will be doing)
This i
On Sat, Feb 14, 2004 at 04:48:19PM +0200, Sami Aario wrote:
> Please let's not post with a title like "Re: Windows 2000 source code
> has been leaked", and then send an empty message with a nondescript
> text file attachment.
Please download a mailer that works. A plain
Please let's not post with a title like "Re: Windows 2000 source code
has been leaked", and then send an empty message with a nondescript
text file attachment.
Ouch!
On Sat, Feb 14, 2004 at 01:46:08PM +0100, Ferenc Wagner wrote:
> Mike Hearn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > We all know what the Windows code probably looks like - a
> > lot of yucky hungarian C and C++.
>
> Name your weapons.
Yucky hungarian notation, not yucky hungarians! :)
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Mike Hearn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> We all know what the Windows code probably looks like - a
> lot of yucky hungarian C and C++.
Name your weapons.
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Feri.
On Sat, 14 Feb 2004 03:02:40 +0100, Viktor Nilsson wrote:
> Well, if you read through the code, to understand it, but you not even
> try to imitate or copy it. Just write brand new code, that does the
> same thing but in a slightly other way?
No, that's not possible. There is apparently a ton of
Rein Klazes wrote:
On Sat, 14 Feb 2004 11:32:05 +0200, you wrote:
What you are saying is applicable to copyright law. I.e. - if you
reverse engineer the code (say, by disassembling it). If that's what you
did on LEGALLY OBTAINED CODE, then you are probably ok. The reverse
engineering itself
On Sat, 14 Feb 2004 11:32:05 +0200, you wrote:
>
> What you are saying is applicable to copyright law. I.e. - if you
> reverse engineer the code (say, by disassembling it). If that's what you
> did on LEGALLY OBTAINED CODE, then you are probably ok. The reverse
> engineering itself needs to be
Viktor Nilsson wrote:
On 2004-02-13, at 18.02, Shachar Shemesh wrote:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Use common sense.
IANAL
The intelectual property law governing this case is the trade secret
law. It says that the information is illegal to use if the recipient
knows, or should have known, that i
On 2004-02-13, at 18.02, Shachar Shemesh wrote:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Use common sense.
IANAL
The intelectual property law governing this case is the trade secret
law. It says that the information is illegal to use if the recipient
knows, or should have known, that it originated with illega
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Zitat von Jonathan Wilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
I heard news that windows 2000 source code was leaked and have seen what
proports to be a filelist.
Dont know if its genuine but for everyones sake I suggest that all people
here completly ignore it (same as I will be d
Lo [EMAIL PROTECTED],
On 13-02-04 (Fri) 10:49 +0100 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
| What will you do if somebody posts bits of it as a answer of a
| question you asked?
Look up his name using google? :-)
Bye.
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[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Zitat von Jonathan Wilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
I heard news that windows 2000 source code was leaked and have seen what
proports to be a filelist.
Dont know if its genuine but for everyones sake I suggest that all people
here completly ignore it (same as I will be d
Zitat von Jonathan Wilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> I heard news that windows 2000 source code was leaked and have seen what
> proports to be a filelist.
>
> Dont know if its genuine but for everyones sake I suggest that all people
> here completly ignore it (same as I will be doing)
It looks like
I heard news that windows 2000 source code was leaked and have seen what
proports to be a filelist.
Dont know if its genuine but for everyones sake I suggest that all people
here completly ignore it (same as I will be doing)
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