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  • From: William.P.McGonigle AT artoo.hitchcock.org (William P. McGonigle)
  • To: freetds AT franklin.oit.unc.edu
  • Subject: Re: Judge Jackson sees a future for Microsoft(s) (fwd)
  • Date: 09 Jun 2000 11:42:49 EDT



I think the standard legal means of dealing with such licenses is the clean-room implementation, where some folks agree to the license and only answer "you're getting hotter" and "you're getting colder" questions from folks who are writing the code. IIRC, IBM sued Phoenix for doing this with their PC BIOS and was unsuccessful in that suit. Detailed logs of the process were what saved Phoenix.

Come to think of it, this message probably wouldn't exist if they'd lost.

-Bill



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