Re: [ros-dev] RE: What Happened

[Magnus Olsen]

reverse engineering is not illegal, it is legal todo it.
But u must rember it exists diffent law in each contry about this.
Only one way todo revers eng in USA have been tested in court.
it call Clean room reverse engineering.  As long u are doing
Clean room reverse engineering it is okay. some other contry any metod are
okay to use acoding there law.

Please check u fact before u speak

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "David Eckert" <davy2002a(a)gmail.com>
To: <ros-dev(a)reactos.com>
Sent: den 10 February 2006 22:26
Subject: [ros-dev] RE: What Happened


>   Allow me to just put it this way, reverse engineering
> IS illegal,
>  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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