[News] AFUA visited Thendic-France | ANN.lu |
Posted on 24-Apr-2002 15:30 GMT by Teemu I. Yliselä | 629 comments View flat View list |
The French Amiga user group AFUA visited the Thendic-France headquarters and met with Bill Buck and the Coyote Flux guys. Read their report here.
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Posted by a Clue on 27-Apr-2002 18:01 GMT | From the Wine KnowledgeBase (Might be relivant)
"What undocumented APIs / interfaces are not understood? Would seeing Microsoft source help?
amohr@codeweavers.com
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The best would be if the Windows API was fully documented,
so Wine could be a perfect "clean-room" implementation.
Seeing the source code might make it harder to prove that no copyright
violations have taken place.
That said, the documentation is often bad, nonexistent, and even misleading
where it exists, so a fair amount of reverse engineering have been necessary,
particularly in the shell (Explorer) interface."
Important terms might be "fully documented" and "clean-room". Now if the Legality of MorphOS was challenged legally in court the burdon of proof would be on the MorphOS crew to prove "clean room" implementation from "fully documented" APIs or similar.
But, the Issue seems to be one of Marketing according to Mr. Ben Hermans. So, I'm not sure why people are takeing about software, ROMs, source code, If Amiga, Inc. and partners feel the issue is Marketing (that would be past, present, and future Marketing by the MorphOS team).
Sorry, just trying to make sence of this. Til any legal action is taken, I'm not sure anyone can say where either party stands, as we won't know what the exact legal issue is unless legal papers are filed. Everything else is just posturing. |
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