FOSS Application Under Attack by Makers of KaZaa

Posted by timothy on Wednesday April 28, 2004 @06:40AM from the hey-no-stealing dept.

Famatra writes "A story from Zeropaid indicates that maker of KaZaA, Sharman Networks, has sent a Cease and Desist Letter to the maker of KCEasy because it interoperates with their FastTrack network. The creator of KCeasy says on the KCEasy website "I feel that inclusion of FastTrack access with KCeasy is not worth a legal battle between Sharman and myself". A similar issue was covered by the Slashdot story Fight On Blizzard Vs. Bnetd Case on the right to reverse engineer to create an interoperable network. Reverse engineering to be another on the list of rights that have fallen by the wayside?"

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I always think of crap by Omega1045 · 2004-04-28 07:03 · Score: 0, Offtopic

Not trying to be a troll here, but whenever I see or hear about Sharman Networks I always think of shit. I would assume that is because of the Charmin toilet paper...

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1. Re:I always think of crap by Omega1045 · 2004-04-28 07:16 · Score: 0, Offtopic
  
  I visit Movie Poop Shoot often, does that count?
  
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Re:reverse engineering a right? by DAldredge · 2004-04-28 07:26 · Score: 3, Offtopic

AMD had a license. They where an official second source for 286 and 368 processors.