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Originally Posted by leebase
It would be. Not the concept of adding two numbers, but your implementation. No different than saying "Why can't I write a story about Captain Kirk, the womanizer space hero".
Name your hero Captain Somebody Else. Just like you could say "Mathemizer(2,2,'Add)" and be different.
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FOUL!!!
In post #11 you claimed:
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Originally Posted by leebase
Why anyone would think that you could just write your own implementation of another companies product in such a way that it's customers could switch to your implementation with no change whatsoever....that's copyright infringement.
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And now you agree that re-implementations are OK?
Darn you to heck! Right after I copyrighted all those low-level utility algorithms!
As for products that re-implement another company's product, try OpenJDK on for size -- the open-source Java runtime that competes with Oracle Java.
How about LibreOffice, which re-implements the MS Office word-processor product, and is compatible with MS Office document formats?
And hundreds upon thousands of similar stories where people re-implement a conceptualized product using 100% original code. Except for the basic toolset, e.g. programming language specifications e.g. the Java schema.