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Easier restrictions

Easier restrictions

Posted Aug 21, 2008 0:38 UTC (Thu) by speedster1 (subscriber, #8143)
In reply to: Easier resrtrictions by NAR
Parent article: Why the JMRI decision matters

Reverse engineering restrictions are indeed frustrating to Free Software users, but I believe
our editor was speculating that the overall effect of totally onerous EULAs being legally
enforceable would be to strongly motivate the beleaguered users of such commercial software to
migrate over to Free Software alternatives.


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