POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.off-topic : ReactOS : Re: ReactOS Server Time
4 Sep 2024 11:19:38 EDT (-0400)
  Re: ReactOS  
From: Invisible
Date: 24 Jun 2010 11:52:05
Message: <4c237f25@news.povray.org>
Warp wrote:
> Invisible <voi### [at] devnull> wrote:
>> I was under the impression that things like (for example) the API for 
>> DirectX is patented, and therefore you can't write a library that has 
>> the same API (i.e., the same functions with the same names and 
>> signatures that do the same thing).
> 
>   Patents are not international. US patents are not recognized here (and
> vice-versa, of course).

OK. But what's to say that M$ haven't patented the same thing in every 
single duristiction that they operate in?


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