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Re: AW: The ethics of software emulations?
it may be a good refresher to read the story again
http://matthias.grob.org/pMusEng/loopdev.htm
Claude
Rainer Thelonius Balthasar Straschill a écrit :
>> > I think there's a case (that has been made to me explicitly,
>> actually)
>> > that even a free product like Mobius hurts the income of
>> the EDP or > other developers
>
> Which is the same case that an artist like Per Boysen or Krispen Hartung
>or
> Steve Coleman who makes albums available for free download (based on
> whatever model) hurts the income of Lars Ulrich or Britney Spears or
>similar
> musicians.
>
> I'm also with Jeff regarding the fact that Mobius isn't a software
>version
> of an EDP, but a different beast altogether.
>
> And as Jeff stated in another message, a lot of the concepts implemented
>in
> the EDP were prior art at the time the EDP was released. I wonder: was
>any
> of the "EDP stuff" protected by a patent or petty patent? Are their
> protection still valid?
>
> Rainer
>
>
>