[openbeos] Re: Sunday amusement
- From: "Bryan Varner" <bman@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: openbeos@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sat, 26 Jan 2002 20:23:25 Local time zone must be set--see zic manual page
> Well, here is what amused me - under limitations (in the EULA) it
> actually says that you cannot reverse engineer this "program". Also,
> it
> says that you cannot release benchmarks of this "program" without
> written permission from BeInc. Amusing. but who reads the EULA
> anyway.
I read that some time ago. For a class in school (over a year ago) we
had to write a report about a EULA.. I chose the R5 Pro EULA.
I do not see OBOS as reverse engineering the OS. We're merely
duplicating the results. Can a company that makes a toaster press
charges because another company made a toaster? even if the internals
are nothing alike? I don't think so.
We are producing code that preforms the same functions. The outcome
will be the same (to follow the above analogy - toasted bread) but the
way that it does it may be entirely different.
That's my .02
-Bryan
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