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Patents don't require copying for liability to exist. Are you talking about copyright?
by monochromatic 15y ago
Patents don't require copying for liability to exist. Are you talking about copyright?
- roc 15y agoUnless he was stealing actual source code from ed or bravo, or literally reprinting the manuals themselves, nothing described would run afoul of copyright.
- meepmorp 15y agoRight, my point was more along the lines of a hypothetical patent on the idea of "an method for editing text on a computer in a text oriented way," and that admitting that you'd seen and borrowed from another program would be a huge mistake today, rather than just acknowledging he did what good programmers do.
- icebraining 15y agoI think he means copy of functionality. I doubt Bill Joy ever copied actual code.