RE: was criminal use of linux [not] -now: ownership

2012-08-02 Thread Patrick Kobly
IANAL, and I suspect you are not either. YMMV - employment law and intellectual property law differ from jurisdiction to jurisdiction. -Original message- From: Dave Ihnat Sent: Thu 02-08-2012 07:43 Subject:Re: was criminal use of linux [not] -now: ownership To

Re: was criminal use of linux [not] -now: ownership

2012-08-02 Thread Ed Greshko
On 08/02/2012 07:04 PM, Ian Malone wrote: > Hi, you have completely destroyed the attributions here, making it > pretty hard to follow the conversation. Which is good. Since this is kind of useless on this mailing list. -- Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to b

Re: was criminal use of linux [not] -now: ownership

2012-08-02 Thread Dave Ihnat
Once, long ago--actually, on Thu, Aug 02, 2012 at 07:26:02PM +1000--Roger (are...@bigpond.com) said: > Er... nobody can take ownership over work that you have written, > Your work is your own, regardless of whether they own the language > you write it in or not. True, unless: 1. You contractu

Re: was criminal use of linux [not] -now: ownership

2012-08-02 Thread Ian Malone
On 2 August 2012 10:26, Roger wrote: Hi, you have completely destroyed the attributions here, making it pretty hard to follow the conversation. Richard Vickery wrote: > Er... nobody can take ownership over work that you have written, Your work > is your own, regardless of whether they own the la

was criminal use of linux [not] -now: ownership

2012-08-02 Thread Roger
Er... nobody can take ownership over work that you have written, Your work is your own, regardless of whether they own the language you write it in or not. Where is it stated that Micros[hi]t owns C++? when did this happen? You can't own something in the free domain? This is like saying that I