"somebody" <x### [at] ycom> wrote in message news:4a2811d6@news.povray.org...
> "Darren New" <dne### [at] sanrrcom> wrote in message
> news:4a280771@news.povray.org...
>> somebody wrote:
>
>> > Does that mean a W2K user has free pass to patch the
>> > XP version to bypass installation/registration?
>
>> I think it does, in the USA, yes. You're allowed to make modifications to
>> something to get around compatibility problems.
>
> Are you positive of that? How is it a "compatibility problem" if I, as a
> vendor, explicitly take measures so it doesn't install or legally register
> on a platform and make it known that it doesn't?
>
> By that token of "compatibility problem", (and should it be feasible), I
> could take a Mac application, decompile it, and compile it for Windows. I
> somehow doubt that's legal.
>
It's entirely legal (again, DMCA not withstanding).  You will undoubted 
breach the license agreement for nearly every commerical software license, 
however.  Similarly, you could write an emulator that will run all Mac 
software on a PC or vice-versa.

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