Reverse engineering
ron minnich
rminnich at lanl.gov
Tue May 20 08:59:01 CEST 2003
On Tue, 20 May 2003, SONE Takeshi wrote:
> Is it legal to disassemble the proprietary VGA BIOS to learn how to
> enable a particular VGA chip?
depends on what country you are in. I have no idea of the rules in Japan.
We have avoided doing this type of thing in the US, because we have so
many lawyers here looking for lawsuits to file. Even if it is legal we
felt it was a bad idea.
ron
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