Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!uwm.edu!gem.mps.ohio-state.edu!rpi!image.soe.clarkson.edu!news From: nelson@sun.soe.clarkson.edu (Russ Nelson) Newsgroups: gnu.misc.discuss Subject: Re: Why I do not support GNU Message-ID: Date: 17 Oct 89 13:44:48 GMT References: <8910160520.AA01740@sugar-bombs.ai.mit.edu> Sender: news@sun.soe.clarkson.edu Reply-To: nelson@clutx.clarkson.edu Distribution: gnu Organization: Clarkson University, Potsdam NY Lines: 20 In-reply-to: pk@tut.fi's message of 17 Oct 89 09:30:44 GMT In article pk@tut.fi (Kellom{ki Pertti) writes: Russ> But of course, the same thing goes on all the time. For the Russ> most part, the second manufacturer of a product can steal ^^^^^ Russ> most of the ideas from the first product. Why should Russ> software be different? I understand that you didn't literally mean 'steal', but there is a point in there. Ideas are abstract, and 'stealing' of them is hard to define, if necessary at all. Software, on the other hand, is an implementation of ideas. ... True, but Apple wants it the other way. They want the ideas behind the software (the "look and feel") to be protectable. -- --russ (nelson@clutx [.bitnet | .clarkson.edu]) Live up to the light thou hast, and more will be granted thee. A recession now appears more than 2 years away -- John D. Mathon, 4 Oct 1989.