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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 | # ]
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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 | # ]
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