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| Authored by: Wol on Thursday, October 18 2012 @ 07:52 AM EDT |
Except that functional is irrelevant to copyright.
Going back to OraGoogle that fight over APIs was trying to confuse the WHAT with
the HOW.
WHAT the software does - the API - the declarations - is not copyrightable. HOW
the software does it - the code - is copyrightable (unless there's only one or
two obvious ways of doing it, in which case "independent creation" is
the defence you use).
Whichever way you look at it, if Red Hat's claims are true then Twin Peaks is
toast.
Cheers,
Wol[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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| Authored by: capt.Hij on Thursday, October 18 2012 @ 08:24 AM EDT |
If they take that route then someone making decisions is
completely clueless
about how free software is developed.
All that is already available. If they
want to go deeper
into the development then it will require a deep deep
fishing expedition. The only
rational reason to do that is to ratchet up the
price so
much
that Red Hat considers buying them. Even then, they have not
done their homework to see how Red Hat operates.
On a side note, when
this latest CEO took over of Red Hat
I was very concerned. So far I have been
impressed, and he
seems to get it. This long run view has served them well.
Red Hat has Twin Peaks in such a bind that Twin Peaks is
doing self
destructive things to get out of the trap that
their greed led them into. [ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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