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Re: Binary Driver Issues
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Robert L Krawitz)
Sat Jun 22 10:05:52 1996
Date: Sat, 22 Jun 1996 09:30:15 -0400
From: Robert L Krawitz <rlk@tiac.net>
To: jlewis@inorganic5.fdt.net
CC: dennis@etinc.com, mike@lserv.conexio.co.za, linux-net@vger.rutgers.edu
In-reply-to:
<Pine.LNX.3.91.960621010739.15516k-100000@inorganic5.chem.ufl.edu>
(jlewis@inorganic5.fdt.net)
Date: Fri, 21 Jun 1996 01:11:00 -0400 (EDT)
From: Jon Lewis <jlewis@inorganic5.fdt.net>
cc: Mike Kilburn <mike@lserv.conexio.co.za>, linux-net@vger.rutgers.edu
There are precedents that state the opposite. Stac, makers of Stacker,
lost part of a suit with MS, that involved their reverse engineering part
of the boot up sequence of DOS that enabled fairly seemless integration
of Stacker with DOS.
From what I've read, Stac had a license agreement (not a shrink wrap
thing, this was a real commercial license) that prohibited them from
disassembling DOS.
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