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Message-ID: <200406181942.i5IJgUtM032393@turing-police.cc.vt.edu>
From: Valdis.Kletnieks at vt.edu (Valdis.Kletnieks@...edu)
Subject: MS Anti Virus? 

On Fri, 18 Jun 2004 13:22:11 CDT, Ben Timby <asp@...exc.com>  said:
> I think everyone missed Nick's point. Since reversers work for the 
> competition, don't you think they would find and use the M$ undocumented 
> API? M$ would not be dumb enough to try it, since their competition in 
> this market is comprised of reverse engineers, who would simply 
> "counter-innovate" by using the M$ API :-).

Patent the API.  Or document it with a EULA attached (remember their
documentation of their flavor of Kerberos?)... ;)
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