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To: MichiganMan

This concept is old.

Happend all the time with program packages throughtout the years. Progammers can’t just sell the use but sell the actual item.

The airforce was not selling the package, they were rewriting it for their own use.

no different than any of the other cases on this issue.


6 posted on 08/30/2008 7:59:53 AM PDT by longtermmemmory (VOTE! http://www.senate.gov and http://www.house.gov)
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To: longtermmemmory
Happend all the time with program packages throughtout the years. Progammers can’t just sell the use but sell the actual item.

The airforce was not selling the package, they were rewriting it for their own use.

Yeah, but you understand that the DMCA specifically forbids overcoming copy-protection through reverse-engineering (or any other means, for that matter) which is what SAIC did to use the code they copied.

7 posted on 08/30/2008 8:27:11 AM PDT by MichiganMan (So you bought that big vehicle and now want to whine about how much it costs to fill it? Seriously?)
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