Re: [ros-dev] ReactOS Foundation 501c3 Status - Approved

[Steven Edwards]

--- Jonathan Wilson <jonwil(a)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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[Michael B. Trausch]

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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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