Window source code leaked

[Rick Eversole]

On Fri, 2004-02-13 at 06:12, Luciano Miguel Ferreira Rocha wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 12, 2004 at 11:47:15PM -0500, James Drabb wrote:
> > On Thu, 2004-02-12 at 22:32, fred smith wrote:
> > > Whatever would you want that for?
> > > 
> > > not to mention, if you've ever seen it, you're tainted and anything you
> > > write could be claimed by MS as derivative.
> > 
> > While I am not a lawyer, I do not think that is how copyright laws
> > work.  You could not use the source code verbatim, nor could you use
> > ideas from the code that was patented.  However, you could use ideas
> > from the code that is not covered by a patent.  Think about how
> > copyright really works and not how the RIAA/MPAA/MS/etc want you to
> > think it works.  You can go over a buddies house and watch a movie he
> > purchased by you did not.  You can listen to a song on a friends CD
> > player that you did not pay for.
> 
> But not make a new song based on that one.
You can make a parody song that uses the same music and just
changes the words to something similar (e.g. Weird Al)
> 
> > You can read a book and write a
> > similar story.
> 
> Not *that* similar. And I hope you don't use the same characters.
You can if it is a "parody"
> 
> > You can create you own version of a popular piece of
> > artwork.
> 
> People have been convicted with copyright violation just by creating a
> similar product to existing ones, without ever getting access to the
> original.
> 
> > I can write a book with a theme very similar to the LOTR with
> > trolls, hobbits, elves, etc and it would be legal.  I think copyright
> > laws prevent the distribution of works that you do not own or have a
> > right to distribute.  That is why the RIAA has not sued anyone for
> > downloading music, but for uploading music.
> > 
> > As long as you did not sign an NDA with MS, I don't think they would
> > have any legal recourse against someone who viewed their code and then
> > used ideas from that code that are not covered by a patent.
> 
> No legal recourse? Where did that someone get *their* copy? By violation
> of copyrights, right?
> 
> Anyway, I thought people here respected copyrights. How can the same
> people that cry against ilegal use of GPL code by some corporations take
> so light views on copyright when talking about Microsoft's (supposed)
> code?
> 
> I'm not saying you have just a view, but this is a public list, and from
> these posts I had that view. I just hope to correct that view for any
> public out there.
> 
> > As I said, I am not a lawyer and can be way off base here : )
> 
> Neither am I.
> 
> Regards,
> Luciano Rocha
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Rick Eversole <rick at eversoles.com>