I imagine you're talking about Tagfusion. I brought this same topic up
a while back. The general consensus was that Allaire probably hasn't
copyrighted specific elements of the language. someone just created a new
interpreter for it. Similar to the many different compilers for C.
I suppose the difference between C and CFML is that there is a standard
'C' language. Who defines the 'standard C' language? Is some standards
body, like w3.org? I actually don't know.
If I were Allaire, my biggest worry would be the branding they have put
into ColdFusion. If someone comes along and writes a horribly slow and
buggy interpreter , then it could turn around and give Allaire (Macromedia)
products a bad name.
The most interesting thing about Tagfusion (as someone else once
stated) is that it was written based on entirely different principles than
ColdFusion.
At 12:50 PM 02/26/2001 -0700, you wrote:
>My GF and I got into a discussion of whether or not Allaire could sue this
>company for using a language that Allaire owns.
>
>The discussion turned to whether or not one could own a language (computer
>language or otherwise).
>
>She said yes, if you develop a language you could copyright it and charge
>people to use/speak it.
>
>I'm not sure what I think. Free speach may not apply here, because the
>first admendment says you can (almost) say anything you want, doesn't say
>what language it can be in.
>
>Any comments?
>
>
>
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