Re: The Most Oppressive Clause in Microsoft's EULA...
From: Vanguardx (see_signature)
Date: 10/14/04
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Date: Wed, 13 Oct 2004 20:31:34 -0500
"democratix" <demokratix@yahoo.com>
wrote in news:f68635bf.0410131710.78ccf9d7@posting.google.com:
> ...and typical of proprietary software in general:
>
> *******
> * Limitations on Reverse Engineering, Decompilation and
> Disassembly. You may not reverse engineer, decompile, or
> disassemble the SOFTWARE, except and only to the extent that
> such activity is expressly permitted by applicable law
> notwithstanding this limitation.
> *******
>
> In effect:
>
> If you want to get some end-use out of these instructions, you can run
> them on your computer, but you're not allowed to figure out what your
> computer is doing when it runs them.
>
<snip>
Wow, someone who knows the instruction set for each Intel, AMD,
Motorola, and other processor that has been used in the consumer-grade
computers and can decipher the machine code for the compiled version of
a program. I'm impressed. There's not many Assembler programmers left
and even fewer that read machine code as comfortably and knowledgeably
as they read the newspaper.
And, of course, the politics newsgroups are so very appropriate to this
topic. How come you didn't include a newsgroup that promotes
retroactive abortion (so your parents could correct their mistake, say,
up to twenty years after making it)?
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