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Re: Judge Jackson sees a future for Microsoft(s) (fwd)

From: William.P.McGonigle AT artoo.hitchcock.org (William P. McGonigle)
To: freetds AT franklin.oit.unc.edu
Subject: Re: Judge Jackson sees a future for Microsoft(s) (fwd)
Date: 09 Jun 2000 11:42:49 EDT

I think the standard legal means of dealing with such licenses is the clean-room implementation, where some folks agree to the license and only answer "you're getting hotter" and "you're getting colder" questions from folks who are writing the code. IIRC, IBM sued Phoenix for doing this with their PC BIOS and was unsuccessful in that suit. Detailed logs of the process were what saved Phoenix.

Come to think of it, this message probably wouldn't exist if they'd lost.

-Bill

Judge Jackson sees a future for Microsoft(s) (fwd), Bob Kline, 06/08/2000
- <Possible follow-up(s)>
- Re: Judge Jackson sees a future for Microsoft(s) (fwd), Stefan Bodewig, 06/09/2000
- Re: Judge Jackson sees a future for Microsoft(s) (fwd), Craig Spannring, 06/09/2000
- Re: Judge Jackson sees a future for Microsoft(s) (fwd), William P. McGonigle, 06/09/2000
- Re: Judge Jackson sees a future for Microsoft(s) (fwd), Bob Kline, 06/09/2000
- Re: Judge Jackson sees a future for Microsoft(s) (fwd), Bob Kline, 06/09/2000
- Re: Judge Jackson sees a future for Microsoft(s) (fwd), Fabien Roy, 06/09/2000
- Re: Judge Jackson sees a future for Microsoft(s) (fwd), Brian Bruns, 06/09/2000
- Re: Judge Jackson sees a future for Microsoft(s) (fwd), Scott C. Gray, 06/10/2000
- Re: Judge Jackson sees a future for Microsoft(s) (fwd), Bob Kline, 06/10/2000
- Re: Judge Jackson sees a future for Microsoft(s) (fwd), Bob Kline, 06/11/2000
- Re: Judge Jackson sees a future for Microsoft(s) (fwd), Lance Andersen, 06/12/2000