Microsoft usual fear-mongering.

Microsoft usual fear-mongering.

Posted Jun 27, 2005 1:41 UTC (Mon) by xoddam (subscriber, #2322)
In reply to: Microsoft usual fear-mongering. by ballombe
Parent article: Microsoft Puts Roadblock in Front of Open-Sourcing Avalon and Indigo (eWeek)

> API are not copyrightable

But the 'inventions' required to implement the APIs are *patentable*.
They didn't say explicitly 'copyright', just 'Intellectual Property',
which (as RMS keeps pointing out) is a blanket term which is very easy to
misinterpret.

You can't get in antitrust trouble when your monopoly is explicitly
granted by legislation.

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