Re: FreeBSD vs Linux, Solaris, and NT

[Dag-Erling Smorgrav]

"SteveB" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Trouble is there is no consistency in the rulings.  Hardware decisions
> in general are mirrors of software cases.  Hardware reverse
> engineering tends to be legal. But with software they use Clean
> programmer, Dirty programmer. In other words you can write a program
> exactly like another, if you can prove you never saw the other
> program. If you saw the similar program you are dirty.

AT&T (or Novell, don't remember if it was before or after the sale of
USL) tried to use that argument against UCB. It was rejected.

DES
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