From koffice  Tue Jun 08 20:34:32 1999
From: "Jesse D. Sightler" <jsight () pair ! com>
Date: Tue, 08 Jun 1999 20:34:32 +0000
To: koffice
Subject: Re: MS office filters
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One also doesn't have to sign the EULA to buy MS Office, which is one of
the reasons why their restrictions on "reverse-engineering" are
generally irrelevant.

Harri Porten wrote:
> 
> Martin Konold wrote:
> >
> > On Tue, 8 Jun 1999, Harri Porten wrote:
> >
> > > That's the difficult part about it. I'm not sure about the legal
> > > perspective (reverse engineering!).
> >
> > Reverse engeneering in order to gain interoperability is definetely legal
> > in Germany. (It is literally mentioned in the law)
> 
> Good to hear that. I heard that Microsoft's EULA explicitly forbids
> reverse engineering (no copy available to check) but one doesn't have to
> sign the EULA for analyzing files freely available on the net, of
> course. The guy who wrote the LAOLA specs probably never bought a MS
> program ;)
> 
> Harri.

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