Re: [The Java Posse] Digest for javaposse@googlegroups.com - 12 Messages in 2 Topics

2010-09-14 Thread Miroslav Pokorny
On Wed, Sep 15, 2010 at 1:31 AM, Kevin Wright wrote: > Do you think it would be worse if film/music/television/etc. hadn't? > > > Would be a nice change if Hollywood got sued for remaking/copying foreign films. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Ja

Re: [The Java Posse] Digest for javaposse@googlegroups.com - 12 Messages in 2 Topics

2010-09-14 Thread Josh Berry
2010/9/14 Cédric Beust ♔ > Not sure what you mean: Apple (and all US software companies) have been > able to do that for a very long time. > > For example, it took me a couple of minutes to find a UI patent filed by > Apple in > 1988

Re: [The Java Posse] Digest for javaposse@googlegroups.com - 12 Messages in 2 Topics

2010-09-14 Thread Cédric Beust ♔
On Tue, Sep 14, 2010 at 8:12 AM, Josh Berry wrote: > 2010/9/14 Cédric Beust ♔ > > >> >> On Tue, Sep 14, 2010 at 1:12 AM, Fernando Cassia wrote: >> >>> >>> If by "knock-offs" you mean copies at the UI level, let me remind you >>> of the Lotus-vs-Borland suit in the early 1990s where it was judged

Re: [The Java Posse] Digest for javaposse@googlegroups.com - 12 Messages in 2 Topics

2010-09-14 Thread Kevin Wright
Do you think it would be worse if film/music/television/etc. hadn't? http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/12.03/lessig.html On 14 September 2010 16:12, Josh Berry wrote: > 2010/9/14 Cédric Beust ♔ > > >> >> On Tue, Sep 14, 2010 at 1:12 AM,

Re: [The Java Posse] Digest for javaposse@googlegroups.com - 12 Messages in 2 Topics

2010-09-14 Thread Josh Berry
2010/9/14 Cédric Beust ♔ > > > On Tue, Sep 14, 2010 at 1:12 AM, Fernando Cassia wrote: > >> >> If by "knock-offs" you mean copies at the UI level, let me remind you >> of the Lotus-vs-Borland suit in the early 1990s where it was judged >> that user interfaces cannot be copyrighted. >> > > And yet

Re: [The Java Posse] Digest for javaposse@googlegroups.com - 12 Messages in 2 Topics

2010-09-14 Thread Cédric Beust ♔
On Tue, Sep 14, 2010 at 1:12 AM, Fernando Cassia wrote: > > If by "knock-offs" you mean copies at the UI level, let me remind you > of the Lotus-vs-Borland suit in the early 1990s where it was judged > that user interfaces cannot be copyrighted. > And yet, Apple sued HTC a few months ago for inf

Re: [The Java Posse] Digest for javaposse@googlegroups.com - 12 Messages in 2 Topics

2010-09-14 Thread Fernando Cassia
On Tue, Sep 14, 2010 at 3:11 AM, wrote: > Miroslav Pokorny Sep 14 12:38PM +1000 ^ > > Apple has benefited tremendously from software patents. I don't think the > iPhone or the iPod would be where they are today if American companies had > been allowed to produce knock-offs as soon as v1 was shi