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To: Daniel Schuh who wrote (17455)	2/13/1998 12:48:00 PM
From: Daniel Schuh	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 24154

McNealy: Netscape rumors a joke news.com But true to form, Scott saves his best shots for Bill & Co. Playing off the flack over an Olympics gold medalist snow boarder claiming he tested positive for marijuana because of second-hand smoke, Sun's CEO and stand-up comic Scott McNealy offered up his infamous top ten list: The top ten computer industry situations caused by second-hand marijuana smoke: Note in particular #s 4,2,1. #4 I'd say is more probably something like medical malpractice things caused by interns working 100hrs a week. Cheers, Dan.

To: Daniel Schuh who wrote (17455)	2/13/1998 1:17:00 PM
From: nommedeguerre	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 24154

Dan, >>But Norm, that would be illegal. At least if it were a Microsoft DLL. Better go read your EULA, and remember that Microsoft never, never leaves the lawyers out of it. Illegal in the U.S., standard business practice in Shanghai I hear. Besides I would not actually be disassembling MSFT code, only allowing that possibility by others. What people do with my tools is something I am not liable for and a strong disclaimer most certainly will be in any EULA I tack-on to the product. Nowhere did I mention disassembling MSFT code so you are jumping to conclusions. My target audience would be those software developers who have lost their original source-code and need to reverse-engineer one of their own executables. Just trying to fill a niche-market and make a buck. As long as I make a lot of money that makes it okay, right? Just a simple software engineer trying to write great code and having trouble understanding the strange ways of the legal system. I can see now that it is best that the legal system stays out of the software business -- they just do not understand disassemblers. Cheers, Norm