From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-0.5 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_05 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,a7365ff3531de5f4 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public Path: controlnews3.google.com!news2.google.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!tar-meneldur.cbb-automation.DE!not-for-mail From: Dmitry A. Kazakov Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: [OT] Right to use vs. sue (was: No call for Ada...) Date: Mon, 03 May 2004 16:22:39 +0200 Message-ID: <5djc901glq576rcnpfm8v8vfr7l4s8b4uf@4ax.com> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: tar-meneldur.cbb-automation.de (212.79.194.119) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: news.uni-berlin.de 1083593298 18853290 I 212.79.194.119 ([77047]) X-Newsreader: Forte Agent 1.8/32.548 Xref: controlnews3.google.com comp.lang.ada:209 Date: 2004-05-03T16:22:39+02:00 List-Id: On Mon, 3 May 2004 12:28:12 -0700, "Marius Amado Alves" wrote: >> ... talking in programming language terms you can copyright a type but >> not its instance. > >In general yes, but there are a lot of fuzzy cases. Inheritance, >prototype-bases languages, languages where types are first class objects, >etc. Then let's talk about second class objects! (:-)) >> So one can copyright an engineering decision, not an >> example of its use. It would be a nonsense to copyright a car, but it >> is what actually happens with software. > >Again, I believe the music example can help. Reward is due when the work is >executed. So it works for items that can be executed. Music scores, >programs, in a straightfoward way. It might work, if there were an infrastructure ready to count runs. However, I do not think that customers would enjoy a model of paying per run. We see that people prefer DVD to concerts. And the major problem is that to play music you need orchestra, musicians etc. It is a lot of work and this is why it worked (before file swapping came). >For cars, one can view the construction >and sale of a batch of them as the execution of their blueprint. Similar to >books. -- Regards, Dmitry Kazakov www.dmitry-kazakov.de