21 Mar
2007
21 Mar
'07
12:55 p.m.
Hugh Wimberly wrote:
Woah. I didn't really expect that response. The reason I initially asked is that I remember a few years back when a substantial portion of the code to Windows 2000 (I think?) was leaked, and some people expressed concerns that they could be exposed to lawsuits if they even looked at the code and then at a later date wrote some code for an operating system that performed something similar. However, I think those concerns (if they make sense at all) would be more over patent law than copyright law.
Patents aside for a moment, see http://digital-law-online.info/lpdi1.0/treatise21.html and especially http://digital-law-online.info/lpdi1.0/treatise22.html regards, alexander.