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>>>>>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
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>>I remembered I read that story, they transferred Ashton Tate's developer to Fox Software. I'm sure they formatted their brains... :)
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>>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...
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>Metin,
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>I hope you don't mind if i disagree with you on that one. Dr. Dave Fulton was a professor at a Ohio university and had some of his star students write the code for foxbase. then they created a Mac version which also worked with DOS dbf files (which dBase for Mac did NOT). then they ported the UI to dos and added object orientation and named it foxpro.
>no stealing involved.
>If you write a poem in english does not mean you stole from Shakespeare even if you use the same words (but in different order :-)
They used different brains, different pens but poems like same... :)
I think doesn't matter if source codes are different. Foxbase commands same with dbase commands, results same with dbase results... Just splash screens are different, faster and a few some extra commands added; @xx,yy promt (it was my favorite), @box, etc...
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>btw I really like your city! It's one of the most beautiful places I have ever been. My daughter worked there for a year
Thank you but. I don't like.
Depends which company your daughter worked and which county she lived.
There are 17 millions people, terrible traffic, metro is almost none, almost everywhere is building, so expensive for a developing country city. I have a friend at Toronto, he pays like my Istanbul flat after add extras (He doesn't pay extra money for water, electricity and maintenance). Worst part is if you used, "minibus". I don't think so there is a system on this planet like minibus... I hate it... :(
>Peter
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