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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. -- - Harald Welte <laforge at gnumonks.org> http://laforge.gnumonks.org/ ============================================================================ "Privacy in residential applications is a desirable marketing option." (ETSI EN 300 175-7 Ch. A6)