[Distutils] Call for information - What assumptions can I make about Unix users' access to Windows?

[Jan Claeys]

Steve Dower schreef op ma 10-11-2014 om 16:35 [+0000]:
> > * Forbidding reverse-engineering of the OS to see how it behaves.
> 
> Yeah, I doubt that restriction is moving anywhere. It's standard for
> closed-source software, and as I understand it's intended to legally
> protect trade secrets and patents (i.e. "we tried our hardest to keep
> this a trade secret"). I've never heard of anyone being pursued for
> doing it though, except to be offered a job working on Windows :)

FWIW: that statement is illegal and thus void in e.g. the EU (and I
thought even the USA?).  That's probably why it didn't get pursued often
recently...  ;)


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Jan Claeys