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Unable to buy a copy of BK

Unable to buy a copy of BK

Posted Sep 26, 2004 6:08 UTC (Sun) by joedrew (guest, #828)
In reply to: Unable to buy a copy of BK by lm
Parent article: An Interview with Tom Lord of Arch (O'ReillyNet)

"You can't compete" is a *subset* of no reverse engineering.
It most certainly is not. I can compete with Bitkeeper without ever looking at its output, code or feature set.

I won't comment as to the enforceability of your anti-reverse-engineering clause, because those in general have not been tested in American courts, and I'm not an American.


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