Ubuntu reaches out to embarrassed SuSE devs

[grumpy]

On Saturday 25 November 2006 19:48, Les Mikesell wrote:
> On Sat, 2006-11-25 at 20:11, grumpy wrote:
> > > [2] IANAL, so I don't know whether such a fishing expedition
> > > is legal (you can acquire the code with this intent without
> > > going to court), but in practice it's hard to prevent anyway,
> > > and there's nothing really unfair about it.
> >
> > I remember a talk I attended about Reverse Engineering
> > There are some well tested rules that you have to follow...but it is
> > possible
>
> Perhaps you are confusing copyrights with patents. With patents
> it doesn't matter if you invent the same technique yourself
> with no exposure to the original - you still can't use it without
> a license from the owner.
Linux is a reverse engineered variant of UNIX or was originally
That's why Linus wrote it he couldn't afford a Unix licnse
>
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>   Les Mikesell
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