Al Davis wrote: > At the time, I believed like the majority, that Henderson was just > jealous of his competition, because he couldn't keep up. In hindsight, > now I see it Henderson's way. > > How is this case different from GPL violations today? > > http://www.esva.net/~thom/philkatz.html > http://www.was-ist-fido.de/doks/fnews/fido540.txt Whatever history decides what the details were, the future looks like we are going to return to the Greek tradition, which was to view ideas as the gifts of the Muses. Therefore not patentable. The complexity of software is such now that the judges and juries who decide case law cannot possibly understand what they are doing, and- as the PKzip case suggests, we'll find ways around the court decisions to make them trivial.
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