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Harald Welte laforge at gnumonks.orgOn Mon, Jul 18, 2011 at 04:00:29AM +0900, Seungju Kim wrote:
> > 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.
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.
> 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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