You can always be sued and be forced to spend a lot of time and money on your defense, regardless of whether you are innocent or guilty.
While there is no reasonable doubt that computer languages can't be copyrighted, Wolfram can always use some software patent to drag anybody to court. How about #20110004864, or "Method of Dynamically Linking Objects Operated on by a Computational System". How can you write any computational system without linking objects operated on? Could it possibly be more vague? I'm pretty sure that one could find prior art here and have such a patent suit be thrown out after spending a few years in court, but it will cost you dearly... To Wolfram's defense, they haven't abused the court system. But its naive to think that you can't be sued (for any reason). On Monday, April 2, 2012 7:30:53 PM UTC+1, Dr. David Kirkby wrote: > > On 04/ 2/12 05:47 PM, Jan P�schko wrote: > > > I'm still thinking about a better way to choose Sage for integration > (etc). > > One would be to introduce a Sage "package" that overrides all > corresponding > > SymPy-enabled functions; this would require the implementation of > > Mathematica-like packages first, of course. Another way would be to have > an > > option > > Engine->Sage > > for Integrate, for instance, which is probably still more > Mathematica-like > > than a totally different function (symbol) SageIntegrate. > > > > It's your project, but if it was me, I'd certainly go for the Engine->Sage > approach, which as you say it more Mathematica-like. > > I've not looked at your program, but how did you write the parser? Do you > convert expressions to FullForm, so 1+2 is represented by > > Plus[1,2] > > or do you use some other method? > > You might run into the same problem Richard Fateman run into, with Wolfram > Research threatening legal action over the use of their commands. If so, > I'd > remind them of the famous Borland vs Lotus case > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lotus_Dev._Corp._v._Borland_Int%27l,_Inc. > > which was settled in the Supreme Court in the USA. > > -- > A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text. > Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing? > A: Top-posting. > Q: What is the most annoying thing in e-mail? > > -- To post to this group, send an email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URL: http://www.sagemath.org
