[Fwd: Intellectual property for newbie programmers (was Re: [Fwd: Re: [SLUG] Novell and Microsoft])]

2006-11-07 Thread Phill O'Flynn
Thanks Adam really! It did clarify a few issues for me Regards Phill O'Flynn - Original Message - Subject: Intellectual property for newbie programmers (was Re: [Fwd: Re: [SLUG] Novell and Microsoft]) From: Adam Kennedy

Intellectual property for newbie programmers (was Re: [Fwd: Re: [SLUG] Novell and Microsoft])

2006-11-06 Thread Adam Kennedy
Phill O'Flynn wrote: As a budding software developer, I find this copyright and intellectual property topic increasingly tragic. Where does it end? Who doesn't copy ideas? Didn't Microsoft develop Windows 3.1 by borrowing the GUI idea from Apple ( and subsequently squashing them). Now