Re: Ubuntu reaches out to embarrassed SuSE devs

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Peter Gordon wrote:
On Sat, 2006-11-25 at 20:20 -0700, grumpy wrote:
Linux is a reverse engineered variant of UNIX or was originally
That's why Linus wrote it he couldn't afford a Unix licnse

No it wasn't reverse-engineered. It was built based on POSIX and other
specifications (like Single Unix) that was able to obtain, plus his
experiences with using SunOS (now Solaris) at the University of
Helsinki, where he was a student.

Yes and "clean room" reverse engineering that Grumpy is thinking about is done to protect against claims of copyright infringment only. Basically you want to be able to show that even if there are substantial similarities in your implementation and the original, it is genuine coincidence and was rewritten from scratch, ie, the implementation was NOT copied.

As somebody else said patents blow through any effort to not tread on them. If your implementation is like the one described in the patent, you are in trouble, doesn't matter how you got there or if you invented it yourself. This is all you need to conclude patents are a chokehold on innvoation IMO. The fact that if you knew there was a patent you are violating can get the patentholder triple damages (count 'em) is just the bankrupting icing on the cake.

http://www.internetnews.com/bus-news/article.php/3500546

-Andy


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