Re: Who owns computer languages?

eric@gadgetguru.com (Eric O'Dell)
29 Nov 1997 00:05:45 -0500

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From: eric@gadgetguru.com (Eric O'Dell)
Newsgroups: comp.compilers
Date: 29 Nov 1997 00:05:45 -0500
Organization: Zippo News Service [http://www.zippo.com]
References: 97-11-043 97-11-052
Keywords: assembler, theory

On 9 Nov 1997 12:07:06 -0500, gclind01@spd.louisville.edu (George C.
Lindauer) wrote:


>This topic has come up in comp.lang.asm.x86 early this year.
>Basically we have the author of a very simple language interpreter
>insisting that the syntax of the interpreted language is his
>intellectual property. The case never went to court, the only person
>who really lost out decided to withdraw his parrot of the original out
>of respect for the original author.


<..snip..>


>The language is named TERSE and the author is Jim Neil if you want to
>peruse deja news and see what some of the discussion was like...


I'm glad I subscribed to this newsgroup today and chanced on this post
--- I've been planning to clone TERSE for some time, and it's good to
know what kind of response I can expect from the original author.


>[Too bad it never went to court. He'd have lost and it would be a useful
>precedent. -John]


If I can ever get some spare time freed up, you may yet get your
precedent.


-Eric
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