--- Jonathan Wilson jonwil@tpgi.com.au wrote:
The way to avoid being sued by microsoft (or at least sucessfully sued) is not to violate microsoft Copyrights, Trademarks or Patents. (we have to be especially carefull what with large chunks of windows out there in the form of the leaked NT4 and 2000 source dumps) And not to use any information obtained from microsoft under NDA.
Try writting a hello world program in any sort of modern language and you might violate a patent.
Thanks Steven
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Steven Edwards wrote:
Try writting a hello world program in any sort of modern language and you might violate a patent.
Sounds about right, the way things are going in today's world...
That's one of the reasons that I lurk in more places then contribute, not to mention I still don't have practical knowledge of how to program in many different languages/systems. I do more internal projects that never get released to anything public because who the hell can keep track of what is compliant or not with everyone else's patents and copyrights and so on and so forth. *shrugs*.
Later, Mike
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