[ros-dev] RE: What Happened

[Wesley Parish]

On Sat, 11 Feb 2006 10:26, David Eckert wrote:
> Allow me to just put it this way, reverse engineering IS illegal,

And Microsoft explicitly permits it in their "Inside Windows [NT | 2000 | XP]" 
books - they even allow that most prolific reverse-engineer of NT, Mark 
Russinovich, to put most of his sysinternals website on the cdrom included 
with the Microsoft Press book "Inside Windows 2000".

There's a legal doctrine called "unclean hands" - google for "define: unclean 
hands" and you'll see that Microsoft has not a leg to stand on.  Unless the 
judges are irredeemably corrupt, which isn't impossible.

Wesley Parish
> HOWEVER even Microsoft reverse-engingeers stuff that they want to know
> how it works and to write drivers/etc for, so I still don't see the
> point of why anyone would have a problem, it's not like ReactOS is the
> first to utilize reverse-engineering practices to learn something, and
> secondly I'd like to point out by the information I have studied,
> ReactOS DOESN'T have Windows source code in it (at least by the
> current facts, no) it was suspected that so due to a certain crash
> that looked similar in terms of debugging very identicle to Windows.
>
> --
> -David W. Eckert
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