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Is this kind of thing open to copyright or patent suits from Apple? I always wonder, with projects like this, how you can get away with doing such a close copy
by rogual 7y ago
Is this kind of thing open to copyright or patent suits from Apple? I always wonder, with projects like this, how you can get away with doing such a close copy of a commercial OS.
- yellowapple 7y agoNeXTSTEP and the UI thereof are thoroughly abandoned. Apple doesn't sell it anymore, last I checked (hell, I don't even think Apple acknowledges its existence at all at this point, beyond the parts that it now calls "Cocoa"). While I wouldn't put it past Apple, actually suing someone over an open-source reimplementation would be - to put it as diplomatically as possible - a dick move of the highest degree. Legally speaking, though (as a not-lawyer), I reckon it'd be contingent on however the Oracle v. Google war goes.