On Sat, 11 Feb 2006 10:26, David Eckert wrote:
Allow me to just put it this way, reverse engineering IS illegal,
And Microsoft explicitly permits it in their "Inside Windows [NT | 2000 | XP]" books - they even allow that most prolific reverse-engineer of NT, Mark Russinovich, to put most of his sysinternals website on the cdrom included with the Microsoft Press book "Inside Windows 2000".
There's a legal doctrine called "unclean hands" - google for "define: unclean hands" and you'll see that Microsoft has not a leg to stand on. Unless the judges are irredeemably corrupt, which isn't impossible.
Wesley Parish
HOWEVER even Microsoft reverse-engingeers stuff that they want to know how it works and to write drivers/etc for, so I still don't see the point of why anyone would have a problem, it's not like ReactOS is the first to utilize reverse-engineering practices to learn something, and secondly I'd like to point out by the information I have studied, ReactOS DOESN'T have Windows source code in it (at least by the current facts, no) it was suspected that so due to a certain crash that looked similar in terms of debugging very identicle to Windows.
-- -David W. Eckert
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