Re: gEDA-user: hydraulic symbols and schematics

[al davis <ad252@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thursday 08 April 2010, Kai-Martin Knaak wrote:
> This is one of the strange consequences of the common law
>  system. In the  rest of the world, where civil law is
>  applied, ignorance of the delinquent does not diminish the
>  forfeit.
> 

It isn't law that you could be ignorant of.

It's a "work".  If you know about the "work" and do something 
like it, they have a strong case that yours is influenced by 
theirs.

If you don't know about something, you can't copy it, and you 
are in a stronger position to defend that you did it 
independently.

It's not just patents ..  It applies wherever there is 
"intelectual property", such as trade secrets.

Signing a non-disclosure agreement is dangerous in a similar 
way.

The EDA business is small and tight.  If any EDA company were to 
attack gEDA, the biggest impact would be in publicity (negative 
for them, positive for us).  I don't feel threatened.  Hey, 
Synopsys, come and get me.


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