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Re: ARDI legal stuff





On Thu, 19 Oct 1995, Vladimir Mazek wrote:

> I believe Cliff wrote about this before, but I still don't get it
> completely. I don't understand why ardi is doing everything from the ground
> up (reinventing the wheel)? I know that apple would sue you if you took the
> code completely, but aren't you even allowed to take "snippets" of code and
> modify them to run on the IBM compatibles. 
> 
heheh...Umm...Anyone programmer that has  had ANY direct contact with 
disassembly with any Apple software  can cause the company to be sued.
Trust me..I've heard  of cases....

> Would they have any way of figuring out what you did? 
> 
It's not that hard...Depends on the size of code....I'm writing a driver 
for QuickBase to access Perl via DBI...I could REWRITE the WHOLE program
based around their code...but the direct concepts. A programmer (or  
group) have a  unique way of solving problems. If their are too  
manyofthe "uniqueism" in the code...And they can prove ONE..ONLY needs 
ONE ( =) ) programmer worked  with disasemblying the original source..

Law suit.=)



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