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To: carranza2 who wrote (56479)	10/31/2006 11:15:44 AM
From: Michael Kimmel	Read Replies (1) of 196829

I really wonder how the legal issues work out. Many moons ago, I was working on a project developing internet software (I was a software engineer). At the time, there were several projects underway within the corporation, some of those had rights to read the source code from competing companies/architectures, others not. We were not. We were not allowed to look at unlicensed competing source code. Period. Wouldn't there be some liability for BRCM just for looking at the source while developing a competing product? The code may, indeed, not be line for line compatible, but that doesn't mean they didn't learn how the technology works, and were able to apply that knowledge.

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