Re: KDE v. Gnome

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From: Phil Hunt
Date: Mon, 05 Oct 1998 00:00

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In article <fk+RREAoJJG2Ewgl@dlsl.demon.co.uk>
           jason@dlsl.demon.co.uk "Jason Clifford" writes:
> In article <6v8mp4$dsq$1@nntp.ucs.ubc.ca>, Bill Unruh
> <unruh@physics.ubc.ca> writes
> >Precisely the case for software. If I sell something too similar to Word
> >2.0, I get a nasty letter from MS. A copyright does give the company or
> >person owing it absolute control over anything sufficiently similar to
> >the product being copyrighted. That is a monopoly.
> 
> No, while MS may send you such a letter they have no case unless your
> produce is a 'copy' of theirs. There are plenty of WYSIWYG word
> processors out there. MS have control of only one!

I suspect in practise you are wrong here. MS can afford more expensive
lawyers than me, and can afford to drag out a legal case forever.

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From: philh@vision25.demon.co.uk (Phil Hunt)
Subject: Re: KDE v. Gnome
Date: 1998/10/05
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