On Fri, Jul 25, 2003 at 11:56:34AM +0200, Ga?l Le Mignot wrote:
>
> > BK already provides more than enough in the way of
> > interoperability, both on the way in and on the way out. It's
> > trivial to get your data out of BK as well as your metadata. It's
> > a small perl script to get all the info out and plop it into some
> > other system, we're much better about that than any free or
> > commercial system.
>
> And MS Word allows to export data in plain text or html.
Which is a lossy export. Of course reverse engineering of Word is allowed,
you didn't get all your data. You can get *all* of your data out of BK,
by definition. BK can start with the data it exports and rebuild the
revision history. So can you. So you are needlessly arguing.
> This is exactly the same. As long as there is a data format or a
> protocol involved, European laws allow users to reverse engineer it,
> to be able to create another program using the same format and
> protocols.
Really? Show me that law please.
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