Lets suppose that I own Company X. Now lets suppose that times are hard and I need some money. What would be a really simple way to acquire that money? By reading through an open solution to the solution that I charge for... and further "claim" that their code copied mine. It would be very simple to do so because the open code is freely available for me to say was copied and all of my code would be hidden away on my HD for you to have little idea whether or not the code was taken from there. Thats the first huge problem with this lawsuit.
Lets hit the second one up. Suppose that linux does contain a so called 80 lines of copied code. 80 lines is very little. In what world does 80 lines become a trade secret (excluding of course, asking any perl programmers, for they could write an OS in 80 [extreamly anoying] lines of code).
This whole thing is stupid. Most apps have more than 80 lines of code simply for going through all their command line options. Perhaps if the number was 80k, I would deeply understand. But this is just rediculous, and hopefully the courts will see so also.
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Lets suppose that I own Company X. Now lets suppose that times are hard and I need some money. What would be a really simple way to acquire that money? By reading through an open solution to the solution that I charge for... and further "claim" that their code copied mine. It would be very simple to do so because the open code is freely available for me to say was copied and all of my code would be hidden away on my HD for you to have little idea whether or not the code was taken from there. Thats the first huge problem with this lawsuit.
Lets hit the second one up. Suppose that linux does contain a so called 80 lines of copied code. 80 lines is very little. In what world does 80 lines become a trade secret (excluding of course, asking any perl programmers, for they could write an OS in 80 [extreamly anoying] lines of code).
This whole thing is stupid. Most apps have more than 80 lines of code simply for going through all their command line options. Perhaps if the number was 80k, I would deeply understand. But this is just rediculous, and hopefully the courts will see so also.