On Mon, Oct 21, 2002 at 11:55:52PM +0200, Nicos Gollan wrote: > > And now for some nice stuff that I once heard in a lecture. The prof. > said - and we asked rather specificaly - that you could even take > proprietary software like Windows, strip it of all "artistic" content > like image, text and sound resources, replace those resources by > selfmade ones and sell the resulting thing under another name. At least > in Germany. You cannot copyright algorithms, mathematical procedures > and so on, and any software that is stripped of any "artistic" content > is just a collection of well-known algorithms. ..and code. (Since it's from MS, it's in binary format, but still code.) And you would have to rewrite all that code yourself for this to work. Basically, you can't copyright the idea of "operating system"; just the code (and "artistic content" -- which covers the code if you ask me). James > Embedded Linux -- True multitasking! > TWO TOASTS AT THE SAME TIME! > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.2.0 (GNU/Linux) > > iD8DBQE9tHfxeOF0+zcVdv8RAvGEAJ9Gf42ezQlRKVmSSHTTmmwqsBLHvQCfX7aS > Y2dccc2Wn69o5yKgfpH3Va4= > =SiLW > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-request@lists.debian.org > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmaster@lists.debian.org >
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