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

[Richard Hartman <hartman(at)onetouch.com>]

I thought it was the _data_ they were accessing in "novel ways".

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-Richard M. Hartman
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: D. C. Sessions [mailto:dcs@lumbercartel.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, October 16, 2002 9:49 AM
> To: DVD-Discuss
> Subject: 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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