[PLUG] Creative writing

Paul Johnson baloo at ursine.ca
Wed Aug 13 23:51:01 UTC 2003


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On Wed, Aug 13, 2003 at 11:41:12PM -0700, Brian Beattie wrote:
> On Wed, 2003-08-13 at 23:34, Paul Johnson wrote:
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> > On Wed, Aug 13, 2003 at 05:38:06PM -0700, Brian Beattie wrote:
> > > > You can take apart a tivo, or a roomba, or any mechanical object, why
> > > > not a piece of software?
> > > 
> > > DMCA
> > 
> > I don't think that makes Jeff's point any less valid, however.
> 
> no I think DMCA is completely wrong and I think it harms the software
> industry in this country.
> 
> You should be able to disassemble code for any purpose.

Right.  That's what Jeff was implying the way I read it.

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