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On Sun, Apr 27, 2003 at 03:32:55PM -0700, Larry McVoy wrote:

> I don't think it is exclusively the open source folks that have the 
> business guys worried, they are also worried about the illegal wholesale
> replication of the software which occurs in places like China.

apples? pears?

100% copy or "binary clone" of a software is illegal, thats correct.

Reimplementing the "ideas" behind a software is legal.

Otherweise there wouldn't be Bitkeeper. "100% original invention" is
impossibel today. At least for a "nontrivial" software. And i guess
Bitkeeper isn't "trivial" (-> it's more than a oneliner).




Bis denn

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