Window source code leaked

[Sam Barnett-Cormack]

On Sat, 14 Feb 2004, James Drabb wrote:

> Reverse engineering is not illegal in the USA.  The DMCA did add extra
> crap to the US laws concerning reverse engineering, however it is still
> legal, especially for compatibility purposes.  Why do you think it is OK
> for Open Office to work with MS Office files?  How do you think we got
> Samba?

I don't know about MS Office file formats, but Samba was at least helped
by the *initial* smb being published as a standard...

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Sam Barnett-Cormack
Software Developer                           |  Student of Physics & Maths
UK Mirror Service (http://www.mirror.ac.uk)  |  Lancaster University