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Subject: Re: MS office filters
From: "Jesse D. Sightler" <jsight () pair ! com>
Date: 1999-06-08 20:34:32
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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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