From: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
To: christos gentsis <christos_gentsis@yahoo.co.uk>
Cc: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu, root <root@mail.gadugi.org>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Cherokee Nation Posts Open Source Legisation - Invites comments from Community Members
Date: Sun, 16 Jan 2005 11:13:03 -0500 (EST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.61.0501161112190.31402@chimarrao.boston.redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <41E4CBC3.4070302@yahoo.co.uk>
On Wed, 12 Jan 2005, christos gentsis wrote:
> second: does this US law means that everything could be a "trade
> secret"? even something like the GUI? or a process bar? and in case that
> someone will register them what is going to happens?
Only secrets can be trade secrets.
As soon as somebody else figures it out and publishes it,
it's no longer a secret, and can no longer be a trade
secret.
--
"Debugging is twice as hard as writing the code in the first place.
Therefore, if you write the code as cleverly as possible, you are,
by definition, not smart enough to debug it." - Brian W. Kernighan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-01-16 16:13 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-01-06 18:04 Cherokee Nation Posts Open Source Legisation - Invites comments from Community Members root
2005-01-06 18:36 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2005-01-06 18:37 ` root
2005-01-06 19:35 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2005-01-06 20:31 ` OT Re: Cherokee Nation Posts Open Source Legisation Stephen Pollei
2005-01-06 21:32 ` root
2005-01-06 21:55 ` Måns Rullgård
2005-01-06 22:27 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2005-01-06 23:16 ` Bernd Petrovitsch
2005-01-06 22:27 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2005-01-07 2:16 ` root
2005-01-07 13:03 ` Helge Hafting
2005-01-07 18:00 ` root
2005-01-08 14:17 ` Helge Hafting
2005-01-12 7:03 ` Cherokee Nation Posts Open Source Legisation - Invites comments from Community Members christos gentsis
2005-01-12 8:49 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2005-01-12 17:18 ` root
2005-01-12 20:17 ` Stephen Pollei
2005-01-12 21:05 ` jmerkey
2005-01-13 8:21 ` Daniel Egger
2005-01-12 18:19 ` Bernd Petrovitsch
2005-01-16 16:13 ` Rik van Riel [this message]
2005-01-16 20:25 ` Werner Almesberger
2005-01-06 18:26 root
2005-01-06 19:44 Stephen Warren
2005-01-06 20:19 ` linux-os
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