In any event, there's certainly a countercurrent to UCITA, and much of it comes from enterprises that have no particular interest in Linux. It might make it through in Washington State because Microsoft is to Washington as the auto industry is to Michigan. But as long as it isn't a Federal statute, there's nothing to stop someone from doing reverse engineering in Maine or New Mexico.
Well, we all know the world starts in Florida and ends in LA, but I heard a rumour (tell NO-ONE!!) that there are some so-called "other countries" out there, and one or two of them have started down the path of "civilisation". Some of them even have toilet paper! One of them (so I am told) even has enough engineering skill to write the kernel of a free UNIX-like operating system... Hey, when you guys in the colonies make laws they generally don't back-propagate here! Keith