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Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, April 19 2012 @ 04:56 PM EDT |
First, WineHQ is not a for-profit organization and Microsoft
probably did not lose a lot of profit because of them.
Second, one company deciding to let things go doesn't preclude
another company to protect their intellectual property assets.[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, April 19 2012 @ 05:06 PM EDT |
Whether historically it was "fair game" or not has nothing
to do with its legal status.
The fact is, source code is protected by copyright.
Then the question is, which parts are protected? That is, if
you only leave function/method/structure/class definitions
and remove their implementation from the code, is it still
copyrightable?
For code that is highly abstracted, consisting mainly of
trivially-implementable functions that are a few lines-of-
code long, it would be hard to argue against such copyright,
wouldn't it ?
It would be nice to see any actual high-level programmers
talk about it. Implementation is easy. Abstractions are
hard. That's why people doing Abstractions (API) are more
scarce and get paid an order of magnitude more than those
dealing with Implementation details.[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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