🚀 go-pugleaf

A friend tells me that a Request for Comments program is now being
held by a committee of U.S. Congress which is developing recommendations
for patent law reforms.  If _ANYONE_ here has details on this, I really
would like to start a congressional crusade against the likes of Lotus.

>>Was SCP's product a 'derivative work' of CP/M (in the legal sense that the
>>CP/M source code was modified to obtain it), or was it a clone of CP/M
>>(i.e. re-developed from specifications without reusing the source code)?

Thanks to an uncomprehending court system, I think the above argument
has been rendered irrelevant by the "Look And Feel" precedents now
being set.

Thank goodness these precedents don't apply to automobiles.  That "Does
Everything" switch mounted on the turn-signal lever works almost the
same way no matter which manufacturer you buy your car from.  Too bad
the computer business doesn't work like this.

Not only is it illegal to pirate someone else's code, but now it has become
illegal to emulate someone's code.  That's rather sad.

-rich