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APIs should be copyrightable? So.. - Microsoft should be able to shut-down clean-room re-implementations of Windows? Like WINE and Sun's Wabi? - IBM should ha
by fpgeek 15y ago
APIs should be copyrightable? So..
- Microsoft should be able to shut-down clean-room re-implementations of Windows? Like WINE and Sun's Wabi?
- IBM should have been able to crush Compaq over their reverse-engineered BIOS?
- Digital Research should have been able to crush Microsoft for including system calls that enabled CP/M compatibility for some programs in DOS?
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- 0xABADC0DA 15y agoAPIs such as Java's are original, creative works of authorship that no two people would create the same way. But they shouldn't be copyrightable because 'history would be different'... great argument there, genius.