In article <45706D24.6040207 at bitsavers.org>, Al Kossow <aek at bitsavers.org> writes: OK, ok, ok, not RT-11. At this point its a thought experiment initiated by the knowledge that there are programs for x86 that disassemble and then reconstitute HLL source from the dissassembled binaries. Of course the HLL source doesn't have comments and most of the variable names aren't particularly meaningful, but its something. Maybe a better example would be something like reconstituting an application where the owners of the property rights are defunct (dead companies) or even the owners don't have the source anymore. A person once said to me "All the good laws were already written at the time of the founding of the Republic, so all that's left for congress to do is write bad ones". That about sums up my feelings on the DMCA. -- "The Direct3D Graphics Pipeline" -- DirectX 9 draft available for download <http://www.xmission.com/~legalize/book/download/index.html> Legalize Adulthood! <http://blogs.xmission.com/legalize/>