Microsoft's C# (Sharp) & .NET -- A Heads Up

[Thaddeus L. Olczyk]

On Mon, 10 Jul 2000 05:22:56 GMT, "Stephen Hansen"
<stephen at cerebralmaelstrom.com> wrote:

>BTW, i'm sorry if i'm oversnipping, but i'm only commenting to a certain
>portion of this...
>
>Your example is invalid because they still kept the same script and just
>redesigned it a bit...
Uhm. No. The original was a serious story about the difficulties a
robot cop had integrating into a human police force. The rewritten
was a comdey. Charaters were renamed some were added some were
changed. Descriptions were changed. Plot elements were removed
others were added. In other words the two were as similar as
"Romeo and Juliet" and "West Side Story".
>
>If Microsoft took Java code, named it Mocha, and altered the API's and a few
>other ways that it worked, Sun would win a suit. If Microsoft took the
>CONCEPT of the Language, and made their /entire own language/ around the
>/idea/ of it, then they havn't /copied/ anything. You can't copyright a
>'concept' or an 'idea'. You can copyright your perticular application of
>said idea or concept.
Class A moron. Read some verdicts and get a clue. Yes you can.