[Wine] Windows API opens up???

[Markus Hitter]

Am 05.03.2008 um 02:23 schrieb rygle:

> See also this article (http://www.informationweek.com/news/ 
> showArticle.jhtml?articleID=206900525), which warns open source  
> projects to stay clear.

It's still unclear to me what's the difference between coding  
something after reading a protocol's documentation vs. coding  
something after reverse-engineering the same protocol. The resulting  
code is exactly the same, all origined by the developer. As patents  
don't care where you've your ideas from, the patent relevance of such  
code is the same as well.

Could somebody kindly please sketch up a scenario which shows what to  
avoid?


Thanks,
Markus

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