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Symbian releases microkernel

Symbian releases microkernel

Posted Oct 24, 2009 5:38 UTC (Sat) by dlang (✭ supporter ✭, #313)
In reply to: Symbian releases microkernel by rahvin
Parent article: Symbian releases microkernel

you need to implement some GCC extentions to the C progrmming languange.

that does not require copying _any_ code from GCC, and if you aren't copying code you can't be a derivitive work, so copyright law does not apply.

in spite of what big media would like yo to believe, you don't copyright concepts and ideas, just the completed work.


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Symbian releases microkernel

Posted Oct 24, 2009 8:18 UTC (Sat) by tao (subscriber, #17563) [Link]

Except, of course, if you're Disney, in which case everything goes, it seems...

Symbian releases microkernel

Posted Oct 24, 2009 20:26 UTC (Sat) by dlang (✭ supporter ✭, #313) [Link]

disney is exactly that big media I was talking about.

and yes the big media folks do manage to get some rulings out of the courts that are just wrong (and if they were used as presidents, would turn around and bite the same big media later)

the cases around books that have similar settings to the Harry Potter series are another example of where things have gone very wrong.

Symbian releases microkernel

Posted Oct 25, 2009 11:15 UTC (Sun) by tao (subscriber, #17563) [Link]

Or the good old The Wind Done Gone, which gotta be one of the more frivolous cases of
copyright abuse...

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