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Re: OT: legal advice



On Wed, May 23, 2001 at 05:10:44PM -0700, Remy Saville wrote:

> I don't want to decompile their software and I don't give a hoot about what
> algorithms they used.  But I don't want to write something to install our
> product on GNU/Linux and have them coming back in three years (duration or
> contract) and saying "hey, we thought of making it convinient to install
> products first.  You broke the contract because that is our an underlying
> idea of our software"
> 
> Are there any lawyer types here who can tell me I don't need to worry or
> should get that changed?

I would be inclined to cross that bit out of the contract and initial
it.  See what they say.  To my eyes it looks pretty clear that you
will not be able to do what you want.

> Jeff, you're in Vancouver right?  Know any lawyers local affordable lawyers
> that I should see?

I can check at work tommorow if our lawyer handles this stuff.

Tks,
Jeff Bailey



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