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Would you apply your reasoning to JavaScript, so that Safari and Chrome would be illegal due to failure to obtain a license for the JS APIs? What about Linux?
by pcwalton 9y ago
Would you apply your reasoning to JavaScript, so that Safari and Chrome would be illegal due to failure to obtain a license for the JS APIs?
What about Linux? Linux copied the Unix syscall interface.
What about Wine?
- strcat 9y agoThere's the reverse of Wine now too with Microsoft's clean room (non-GPL2 and not currently open source at all) implementation of the Linux kernel kernel <-> userspace ABI.