On Thu, 2003-03-13 at 21:37, Jarvis, Robert P. (Contingent) wrote:
> If the Squeak community wants a truly "free" Squeak then the Squeak
> community is going to have to rewrite Squeak to eliminate any and all code
> and objects inherited from Xerox, Apple, and Disney. 

Indeed. However, in practice I really don't expect either of these
companies to be able to fully suppress Squeak. Maybe it'll become
illegal in the US, but what's still legal over there these days anyway?

Furthermore, you'd need to do the whole exercise in a documented
white-room effort, which means that no-one of us can do it. 

(I've been thinking often that Cincom probably may have some legal clubs
to swing at Squeak as well, b/c of all the VW users that have looked at
VW source code and then modified Squeak).

Which all goes to show that the whole concept of 'Intellectual Property'
completely breaks down in circumstances like these. Maybe we should
indeed follow Alan's advise and give up caring about it. I really
couldn't care less whether Disney might threaten to sue me. But then, I
live in the Netherlands...


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