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Intellectual property musical chairs?

Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, February 20 2013 @ 12:04 PM EST

Well, APIs are the look-and-feel of software to programmers, and this case tries
to protect them via copyright (and a bit of patents which failed however), while
the look-and-feel of software towards users is protected with design patents.

Looks like a pea-shell game for look-and-feel going on: whenever you try proving
it nonsensical in one court, the game is actually in another court.

[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]

Intellectual property musical chairs? - Authored by: kuroshima on Wednesday, February 20 2013 @ 12:18 PM EST
Intellectual property musical chairs? - Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, February 20 2013 @ 01:52 PM EST
- Intellectual property musical chairs? - Authored by: Imaginos1892 on Wednesday, February 20 2013 @ 06:48 PM EST

It will pretty much destroy the big FOSS projects on Windows

Authored by: OpenSourceFTW on Wednesday, February 20 2013 @ 12:34 PM EST

After all, you pretty much have to use the windows API at some point, so
Microsoft can claim they infringe. Bye bye Firefox, LibreOffice, GIMP, Inkscape,
etc on Windows. Of course, the next to go would be me, because I would switch to
using Linux as a primary operating system.

Microsoft has to be careful, their grip on the desktop is not what it used to be
a decade ago. It's strong, but not unbreakable.

[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]

already switched to linux - Authored by: ukjaybrat on Wednesday, February 20 2013 @ 01:05 PM EST
- Gnucash n/t - Authored by: cjk fossman on Wednesday, February 20 2013 @ 01:35 PM EST
  - Gnucash n/t - Authored by: ukjaybrat on Thursday, February 21 2013 @ 12:15 PM EST
- already switched to linux - Authored by: Wol on Wednesday, February 20 2013 @ 03:08 PM EST
  - already switched to linux - Authored by: PJ on Wednesday, February 20 2013 @ 05:05 PM EST
    - already switched to linux - Authored by: Wol on Wednesday, February 20 2013 @ 06:57 PM EST
      - already switched to linux - Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, February 20 2013 @ 11:25 PM EST
    - Acer 77739Z BIOS - Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, February 21 2013 @ 02:06 AM EST
      - Acer 77739Z BIOS - Authored by: PJ on Thursday, February 21 2013 @ 02:41 AM EST
        77739Z Acer - Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, February 21 2013 @ 05:22 AM EST
      - Samsungs, bricks, and UEFI - Authored by: Wol on Thursday, February 21 2013 @ 04:12 PM EST
        Samsungs, bricks, and UEFI - Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, February 21 2013 @ 09:40 PM EST
    - already switched to linux - Authored by: Bas Burger on Thursday, February 21 2013 @ 04:14 AM EST
      - already switched to linux - boot CDs - Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, February 21 2013 @ 11:58 AM EST
    - already switched to linux - Authored by: ukjaybrat on Thursday, February 21 2013 @ 12:22 PM EST
    - BIOS won't allow update of Fedora? - Authored by: BJ on Thursday, February 21 2013 @ 01:54 PM EST
  - already switched to linux - Authored by: ukjaybrat on Thursday, February 21 2013 @ 12:20 PM EST
    - already switched to linux - Authored by: Wol on Thursday, February 21 2013 @ 03:56 PM EST
      - already switched to linux - Authored by: ukjaybrat on Friday, February 22 2013 @ 07:17 AM EST
- already switched to linux - Authored by: wayne1932 on Wednesday, February 20 2013 @ 04:58 PM EST
It will pretty much destroy the big FOSS projects on Windows - Authored by: ais523 on Wednesday, February 20 2013 @ 02:21 PM EST
- Only in the US - Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, February 20 2013 @ 04:02 PM EST
  - Only in the US - Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, February 20 2013 @ 11:38 PM EST
    - Only in the US - Authored by: scav on Thursday, February 21 2013 @ 04:07 AM EST
It will pretty much destroy the big FOSS projects on Windows - Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, February 20 2013 @ 03:38 PM EST
- It will pretty much destroy the big FOSS projects on Windows - Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, February 20 2013 @ 10:11 PM EST
- As mentioned only the US suffers - Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, February 21 2013 @ 10:24 AM EST
  - As mentioned only the US suffers - Authored by: ThrPilgrim on Friday, February 22 2013 @ 12:53 PM EST

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