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=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,4feb499c05063194 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news1.google.com!news1.google.com!news.glorb.com!cyclone1.gnilink.net!spamkiller2.gnilink.net!gnilink.net!nwrdny02.gnilink.net.POSTED!c2bfcbcf!not-for-mail Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Artistically creative expression has no role in software design References: <2m2j9gFhf4cpU1@uni-berlin.de> Message-ID: From: "Ed Falis" Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; delsp=yes; charset=us-ascii MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit User-Agent: Opera M2/7.52 (Linux, build 727) Date: Wed, 21 Jul 2004 01:17:57 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 151.203.44.40 X-Complaints-To: abuse@verizon.net X-Trace: nwrdny02.gnilink.net 1090372677 151.203.44.40 (Tue, 20 Jul 2004 21:17:57 EDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 20 Jul 2004 21:17:57 EDT Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:2299 Date: 2004-07-21T01:17:57+00:00 List-Id: On Tue, 20 Jul 2004 21:05:37 -0400, Robert I. Eachus wrote: > Think about it this way: What if you design a program in Ada, and I > make a "work alike" program written in say PL/I. Did I violate your > copyright? I think I would agree that if I "reverse engineered" your > code--or just read the comments--and used the same design I was > infringing. Even if my version used char(*) varying where you used > Unbounded_String, and so on. Which just goes to show the absurdity of the concept of intellectual property as an ideology. -- "When I was a kid, I wanted to grow up to be a wise man. Somehow, I just turned out to be a wise guy".