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Contract Case Could Hurt Reverse Engineering

Posted by michael on from the ties-that-bind dept.

An anonymous reader writes "InfoWorld has an article about how a 'U.S. Supreme Court decision could call into question a common practice among software companies: studying competitors' products to improve their own offerings.'"

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  1. Re:It's about time by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Flamebait
    ...you are seeing that which you were not meant to see.

    OK, asshole, lets also have each car manufacturer patent its own arrangement for the gearshift patterns. Then, every time you get into a different car, you get to look around to find out how to go from one gear to the other. Better yet, only one manufacturer gets to call the gears first, second and third. The rest can call them something like medium, large and venti. Or pink, chartreuse and mauve. Oh, forget it, you're such a pussy you probably can't drive a stick shift anyway.

    By the way, if you're not going to get pissed off at this posting, you weren't meant to see it, so get the fuck out of here.

  2. put MicroSoft out of business? by peter303 · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    When have they had an original idea the past 25 years?