>>>So, you can copyright a language?
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>>>>Maybe Fox software won the case in USA's laws but I think Foxbase was an illegal copy of Dbase...
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>>I know my english is broken but you're a smart man. You know what I mean, I think your court was mistaken.
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>Dr. Dave did not steal dbase code! he created a similar product from scratch. Lucki;y, otherwise foxbase would have been just as slowwww as dbas was!
>if I create a product in a cleanroom which does what vfp does without decompiling vfp i can do so. vfp ide was not protected
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>P

I remembered I read that story, they transferred Ashton Tate's developer to Fox Software. I'm sure they formatted their brains... :)

Also I think steal to dbase code doesn't require. Foxbase and Dbase was similar almost %99. Their commands were same. I think that's enogh for talking about stealing...