Bruno Wolff III wrote: > On Wed, Jul 28, 2010 at 23:48:57 -0400, > Paul Allen Newell <pnewell@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> If doing a "black-box" only job of "reverse engineering" requires one to >> load memory with a trademark, how does this fall into the realm of >> acceptable? > > There was a court case where a company was using a copyrighted phrase > for access control. A competitor won when they also used the same phrase > for access control purposes. > > That was a long time ago and people seemed to feel that when a customer > bought something, they owned it. In today's environment that case might > have gone differently. Judging from the Apple jail breaking case a few days ago, I'm guessing no vendor is eager to see how much they can restrict people from using hardware they bought. Just my read, I am not a lawyer. -- Bill Davidsen <davidsen@xxxxxxx> "We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompetent than from the machinations of the wicked." - from Slashdot -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
