17 Jul
2011
17 Jul
'11
10:34 p.m.
On Mon, Jul 18, 2011 at 04:00:29AM +0900, Seungju Kim wrote:
I don't think you could do this, at least not under German law. Running
a program and observing its input and output are always permitted, as
long as you legally obtained the program.
How do you think that Samba would have ever become such a success, and
unharmed by Microsoft? Because they couldn't do anything against people
observing communications protocols.
What I'm
personally surprised though is why nobody hires people (like us)
to develop translators / gateways between those dialects. That's
probably a hell lot cheaper than replacing your core network from one
vendor with another vendor...
I think it is because of the user agreement, I do not think that
mobile operators are allowed to trace the dialects. Have you heard of a game Starcraft? Its end user
agreement says that
users must not sniff packets nor make gateways that mimics their
protocols.
Not everything that people put in their EULAs is legally valid and
enforcable.
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- Harald Welte <laforge(a)gnumonks.org> http://laforge.gnumonks.org/
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