Closed-source considered harmful (was: JavaScript considered harmful)

Mark McEahern marklists at mceahern.com
Wed Jan 9 15:36:32 EST 2002


Paul Wright
> Unless the manufacturer has decided to distribute inside information,
> both altering a car's calibration and hacking the WinNT kernel involve
> reverse engineering jobs (or people on the inside talking when they
> shouldn't). I should think the legality is the same in both cases,
> although I am not a lawyer.

Don't know if this is true, relevant, up-to-date, but it's interesting:

  http://cr.yp.to/softwarelaw.html

// mark




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