From: Eckhart Köppen (eck1001_at_gmx.net)
Date: Tue Nov 04 2003 - 12:10:02 PST
On Tue, 4 Nov 2003 13:16:09 -0600, R. Dylan Stewart wrote:
> The decision only affects the legality of
> circumventing access controls. You have to be able to legally access the
> protected work in the first place for these alterations to matter at all.
Indeed, a very important point many people seem to have missed in the
recent discussions all over the web.
> It may be possible for the Newton community to use a similar process to
> write a new Newton, but I still think that it would be best to just write
> something to make other devices act more Newton-like.
Agreed. And there is still the issue of software patents which might
even prevent that.
> Wow, that was long! Back to lurking.
Long, but a very good analysis!
Eckhart
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