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RE: [dvd-discuss] Court Sides With Geac in Mainframe Software Cas e



On Wed, 2002-10-16 at 09:36, Richard Hartman wrote:

> AFAICT the third-party did not modify code -- nor did
> they _have_ the code -- they modified the binary ... 
> perhaps they could only do this because they had 
> knowledge of the product from when the worked there
> ... but nonetheless, they didn't modify -- or view 
> -- the code when they were working for the third-party.

Are we reading the same case?
As I read it, the add-on didn't modify the code
at all, just accessed it in novel ways.

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