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Re: Skype-open-source2: Call to donate

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Post by lostgame »

throwaway7767 wrote: post #18
lostgame wrote: post #15

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Paypal has stolen hundreds of dollars for me, with no option for recourse. The only thing worse than them taking my money was talking to the ignorant assholes on the phone about it.

Wow, you got an actual person on the phone? You got further than me when I tried to get back the $200 they stole from me due to "suspicious activity". I gave up trying to collect it after spending a bunch of time on it. They did eventually return it, more than a year later, with no explanation. Just suddenly my account balance increased. No interest payments for the time it was stolen though.

Huh. Similar story, about the same amount of money.

They claimed suspicious activity, when it was in fact a client trying to pay me. Go figure.

Re: Skype-open-source2: Call to donate

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Post by arpa »

cyphar wrote: post #47
skypeopensource wrote: post #38

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"and use what you learned to make a profit" I am not. Problem was in different case. I should not post patched skype binaries, needed for reverse engineering. And its okay, what i will be shotdown for use it.

You're currently asking for money to be able to do something which is illegal. I'd consider that "making a profit". You may not be selling it directly, but crowd funding is a type of sale.

That is not entirely true for EU:

"...An objective of this exception is to make it possible to connect all components of a computer system, including those of different manufacturers, so that they can work together."

And the US: Sec. 103(f) of the DMCA (17 U.S.C. § 1201 (f)) says that a person who is in legal possession of a program, is permitted to reverse-engineer and circumvent its protection if this is necessary in order to achieve "interoperability" - a term broadly covering other devices and programs being able to interact with it, make use of it, and to use and transfer data to and from it, in useful ways. A limited exemption exists that allows the knowledge thus gained to be shared and used for interoperability purposes.

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