Comment Broad implications? (Score 2, Insightful) 601

by cspen001 on Wednesday April 09, 2003 @09:46PM (#5698169) Attached to: Federal Judge Rules Against Reverse-engineering

I'll leave this to the lawyers, but consider this. If reverse engineering is not a valid means to an end, where does this leave any preexisting incidents? Does IBM now have a valid case against anybody and everybody using the bios that was reverse engineered from the original IBM PC? Or maybe I'm off base, can somebody shed some insight?

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