Author: Dann Corbit
Date: 21:41:34 02/15/05
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On February 16, 2005 at 00:36:30, Pallav Nawani wrote: >On February 15, 2005 at 20:48:56, Charles Roberson wrote: > >>On February 15, 2005 at 19:31:58, Dann Corbit wrote: >> >>>On February 15, 2005 at 18:38:43, John Merlino wrote: >>> >>> >>>However, you can use the algorithms. Just not the code. What that means >>>exactly will differ somewhat (perhaps) due to personal opinions. >>> >> > >> Years ago, there was what some would call legal corporate theft. >> I suppose it still happens but I heard about in the 1980's far more > >If I recall correctly, this is not necessary. You can take an oppenents product >and take it apart to learn how it works, and then use the knowledge in your >products. I think this is legal in USA, and it is called 'reverse engineering'. >This is how IBM's original chip design for motherboards was copied and the PCs >spread like wildfire. The cloning of PC-Bios chips and even MS-DOS came from the following method: 1. Someone gets an instance of the thing that they want to copy. 2. They pull it apart/dissassemble it/figure out how it works 3. They write a specification of what it does and how it does it 4. The hand the specification to another team. 5. Using the specification, they new team duplicates the functionality. I don't know if that practice is still legal, but that is what they did. Smells a little seedy to me, but there we are then. >> the web. So, maybe open source should be reconsidered. I've heard of >> people trying to sale open source code off as their own work for money. > >People can't claim that they've made those open source programs, but they can >still sell them for $. The Licenses allow it. For example if someone wants to >sell Natwarlal, he/she can, and I can't do a thing about it, since I have >released it with MIT license. Of course, I still have the option of not >releasing the future versions as open source. > >Pallav > > > >> >> If one is going to actually have "their own" program, then stay away >> from open source code. >> >> Not to mention, it gets dull seeing freshman questions here from people >> that have a program as strong as Crafty. >> >> Charles
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