[plug] [OT] Ferral Politics

[Jeremy Malcolm]

> But, seriously; a slightly more relevant (to the list) question - from
> memory, the current government was supposed to have introduced a bill, or,
> passed into law, or, something similar, the legalising of reverse
> engineering, for porting applications from one platform to another.
> 
> Am I right? If so, what (if anything) came of that?

Yes it was passed into law.

See http://www.austlii.edu.au/au/legis/cth/num_act/caaa2000n1102000321.

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