Messages in this thread | ![/](/images/icornerl.gif) | | Date | Mon, 28 Apr 2003 14:24:04 -0700 | From | Larry McVoy <> | Subject | Re: Why DRM exists [was Re: Flame Linus to a crisp!] |
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On Mon, Apr 28, 2003 at 03:22:31PM -0500, Chris Adams wrote: > Once upon a time, Larry McVoy <lm@bitmover.com> said: > > Sometimes. If you sit down with product A and use it in the process > > of creating product B which does what product A does, the courts have > > held that you can't copy look-and-feel for example. > > Please site a successful ruling to that effect. In the two most > well-known look-and-feel court cases, Apple lost their suit against > Microsoft, and Lotus lost theirs (on appeal) against Borland.
It was written up on slashdot in the last year or so, I think it was some GUI thing maybe with Adobe. Poke around, if you can't find it I'll go look. -- --- Larry McVoy lm at bitmover.com http://www.bitmover.com/lm - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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