Perhaps that means that the portion of AIM being examined isn't a core part, and therefore might not be directly copyrighted. I can't see AOL being naive enough to request the md5sum of the entire client anyway, because then you could easily examine the client elsewhere and return the value it needs.
The best way to find out the md5sum returned is to capture the value and do some sort of brute-force dissection and comparation on the AIM clients available for all supported operating systems. md5sum is precise at unique calculations, so this shouldn't be a problem.
In an almost worst-case scenario, AOL will send parameters for the extraction and have the client return the md5sum from the range it requests. The same brute-force dissection and comparation will aid in finding these values, so it still shouldn't be much of a problem.
After everything is figured out, the final routine pointing to the client can be implemented into libfaim, or whatever library imaginable, and will make all of this work transparent to the user.
If Linux could natively execute Windows binaries, would that cause any less of an effort to develop native Linux software? I think just about everyone that is opposed to native Linux execution on NetBSD is barking up the wrong tree. If you looked at it in retrospective, would the ability to natively execute Linux binaries on Windows halt the development of Windows software? Do the math.
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Project Gutenberg has been around since 1971, and is considered to be an open source electronic library.
...Then perhaps the movies that pick up on this format will make a killing from all the slashdotters invading the stores like they do servers ;-)
Perhaps that means that the portion of AIM being examined isn't a core part, and therefore might not be directly copyrighted. I can't see AOL being naive enough to request the md5sum of the entire client anyway, because then you could easily examine the client elsewhere and return the value it needs.
The best way to find out the md5sum returned is to capture the value and do some sort of brute-force dissection and comparation on the AIM clients available for all supported operating systems. md5sum is precise at unique calculations, so this shouldn't be a problem.
In an almost worst-case scenario, AOL will send parameters for the extraction and have the client return the md5sum from the range it requests. The same brute-force dissection and comparation will aid in finding these values, so it still shouldn't be much of a problem.
After everything is figured out, the final routine pointing to the client can be implemented into libfaim, or whatever library imaginable, and will make all of this work transparent to the user.
If Linux could natively execute Windows binaries, would that cause any less of an effort to develop native Linux software? I think just about everyone that is opposed to native Linux execution on NetBSD is barking up the wrong tree. If you looked at it in retrospective, would the ability to natively execute Linux binaries on Windows halt the development of Windows software? Do the math.