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Re: ARDI legal stuff
On Thu, 19 Oct 1995, Vladimir Mazek wrote:
> I believe Cliff wrote about this before, but I still don't get it
> completely. I don't understand why ardi is doing everything from the ground
> up (reinventing the wheel)? I know that apple would sue you if you took the
> code completely, but aren't you even allowed to take "snippets" of code and
> modify them to run on the IBM compatibles.
>
heheh...Umm...Anyone programmer that has had ANY direct contact with
disassembly with any Apple software can cause the company to be sued.
Trust me..I've heard of cases....
> Would they have any way of figuring out what you did?
>
It's not that hard...Depends on the size of code....I'm writing a driver
for QuickBase to access Perl via DBI...I could REWRITE the WHOLE program
based around their code...but the direct concepts. A programmer (or
group) have a unique way of solving problems. If their are too
manyofthe "uniqueism" in the code...And they can prove ONE..ONLY needs
ONE ( =) ) programmer worked with disasemblying the original source..
Law suit.=)
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