Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S270570AbTGTAGC (ORCPT ); Sat, 19 Jul 2003 20:06:02 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S270569AbTGTAGC (ORCPT ); Sat, 19 Jul 2003 20:06:02 -0400 Received: from mithril.c-zone.net ([63.172.74.235]:2318 "EHLO mail.c-zone.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S270570AbTGTAFz (ORCPT ); Sat, 19 Jul 2003 20:05:55 -0400 Message-ID: <3F19E08C.1040608@c-zone.net> Date: Sat, 19 Jul 2003 17:21:32 -0700 From: jiho@c-zone.net Organization: Kidding of Course User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030624 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Larry McVoy CC: linux-kernel Subject: Re: Bitkeeper References: <20030718204405.GA658@work.bitmover.com> <20030718222702.GC658@work.bitmover.com> <20030719204219.GG7977@fs.tum.de> <20030719215740.GD24197@work.bitmover.com> <20030719222838.GB6942@fs.tum.de> <20030719223956.GG24197@work.bitmover.com> <3F19DA04.80809@c-zone.net> <20030719235526.GA31428@work.bitmover.com> In-Reply-To: <20030719235526.GA31428@work.bitmover.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 848 Lines: 26 (I spared the list a couple of messages by forgetting to CC 'em....) Larry McVoy wrote: > On Sat, Jul 19, 2003 at 04:53:40PM -0700, jiho@c-zone.net wrote: > >>Larry McVoy wrote: >> >>>So where is the law that says it is OK to reverse engineer when the product >>>already provides everything you could possibly want for interoperability? >> >>Antitrust law. The purpose of antitrust law is to further competition, not >>merely interoperability. > > The day I'm worried about antitrust law is the day I'm rich enough to retire. I infer a creeping sense of humor. -- Jim Howard - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/