Re: [boost] Microsoft vs The Boost License

On 08/05/2017 11:09 PM, Gottlob Frege via Boost wrote:

On Sat, Aug 5, 2017 at 12:30 PM, Phil Bouchard via Boost wrote:

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On 08/05/2017 12:11 PM, Phil Bouchard via Boost wrote:

The evidence in this case is probabilistic because what are the chances we come up both at the same time the exact same idea after 60 years of research on the subject?

High, actually. It happens all the time. There is a math thesis about it - predicting the odds of a thesis idea being simultaneously worked on independently by someone else. And just as the thesis would suggest, there is actually more than one paper on the subject.

Well 1/60 * 1/60 = 0.0002778. Chances Microsoft plagiarized are simply higher. But it doesn't matter because their "work" is far from being production ready.