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On 6/24/2010 12:59 PM, Darren New wrote:
> Patrick Elliott wrote:
>> is what is patented, not the API itself.
>
> Really, it depends what's in the patent.
>
> For example, if you patent aspects of the MP3 data stream format, then
> any API that accepts an MP3 data stream as input or generates it as
> output would not be implementable without licensing the patent.
>
True enough. But, as I said in the other post to Orchid. I don't see how
you allow "interoperability", then tell people, "Oh, but sorry, you are
not allowed to duplicate how it works, so you can make it inter-operate."
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void main () {
If Schrödingers_cat is alive or version > 98 {
if version = "Vista" {
call slow_by_half();
call DRM_everything();
}
call functional_code();
}
else
call crash_windows();
}
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