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RE: [ossig] Copyright Laws
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From: Dinesh Nair
To: 'ossig@mncc.com.my '
Subject: RE: [ossig] Copyright Laws
are you saying that due to malaysia's late entry it's impossible to
develop a "clean room" produt ?
No, not impossible. Only IMHO I wouldn't see one.
The mainframe fulfilled something; Unix; of cause Micro$oft (for IBM); don't
forget, there were those Ataris, ZX8X and so on; there was a demand, Apple.
For these days, everything seems covered, in general. Compare it to cars:
not much has happened throughout the last decades; a lot in detail, but
almost nothing in concept.
No, if we stick to computers and software and things, the groundwork is
laid. And Microsoft has pretty much laid its claims to any gold mine in
view. Linux filled a niche, but one that was suffering from a lack of 'clean
room' thirteen years back already. And somehow suffers from comparatively
low ROI as of now.
Late start is always a heavy burden. Think of Microsoft and the Internet.
Think of A-class networks in this country. Except of 10.0.0.0, for sure.
Late entry. And nobody to blame, really.
Now, where do you want to start from scratch ? Chips ? CPUs ? Chipsets ?
DRM, DMCA are done deals, surely no other OS is necessary; we already have
so / too many. Databases ? Wordprocessors ? Productivity Suites ? And here
we are already with add-ons !
Just think of your 'clean room product'. In these days it needs drivers,
connectivity, software, applications, certificates, interoperability. In
short: licenses; APIs, stacks.
You build it in a clean room - and better leave it just there !
If you look for a clean room product, look elsewhere. Read Slashdot on that
nano-bot with its wiggly arm of some 10 nm length waving you out of KLIA at
around 400 MHz. For example.
Maybe I ought to have written 'Yes' to answer your question.
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