At 10:21 PM 3/14/2001 +0100, Anders Magnusson wrote:
>Yes, it is (reverse engineering). It's also so in the US; the most famous 
>case is Compaq's
>reverse engineering and reimplementation of the IBM PC BIOS.

Except that the "Millennium Copyright Act" made it illegal and post dates 
the BIOS situation. This is the law under which the DeCSS programmers are 
being prosecuted I believe.

--Chuck