Easier resrtrictions

Posted Aug 15, 2008 12:22 UTC (Fri) by NAR (subscriber, #1313)
Parent article: Why the JMRI decision matters

restrictions on reverse engineering [...] may [...] become easier to enforce. Such an outcome would not necessarily be a bad thing for users of free software

As far as I see, restrictions on reverse engineering is a bad thing for users of free software, e.g. when they have an NVidia graphics card which doesn't work that well with the binary only drivers...

Easier restrictions

Posted Aug 21, 2008 0:38 UTC (Thu) by speedster1 (guest, #8143) [Link]

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.