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Filter:   • by Jeng (926980) on Tuesday May 01, 2012 @01:52PM
(#39860201)      M.A.D. strategies don't work too well when one
side is perfectly fine with destruction.    • by masternerdguy
(2468142) on Tuesday May 01, 2012 @01:55PM (#39860231)
Languages are the least of our worries. Projects like wine will
become downright illegal.   • And this is why... (Score:5,
Insightful)      by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday May 01, 2012
@01:55PM (#39860233)      copyrighting code at all is a slippery
slope that leads to nothing but hair-splitting. Even if the
judge throws that particular claim out, then what? It's legal to
copy the top-level calls of someone's API, but illegal to make
underlying code that too closely resembles the original? It
seems like any line that gets