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Re: DeCSS Court Hearing Report
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (David Honig)
Tue Jan 4 18:18:09 2000
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Date: Tue, 04 Jan 2000 13:51:02 -0800
To: bram <bram@gawth.com>, ray@unipay.nl
From: David Honig <honig@sprynet.com>
Cc: Lucky Green <shamrock@cypherpunks.to>, cryptography@c2.net, gnu@toad.com
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At 12:47 PM 1/4/00 -0800, bram wrote:
>Specifically, is it, and will it be, legal to create an alternate
>implementation of an API you didn't write?
APIs, instruction sets, pinouts sockets plugs etc.
Interfaces.
Yes. Yes. Yes.
Ref/observe: Sega vs. Accolade, AMD & Intel, various Java shenanigans...
