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by titzer 61 days ago
Read the article. He copied the BIOS code straight up, including the copyright notice itself. That's blatant copyright infringement.
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alnwlsn 61 days ago
This was not understood to be so at the time, and the resulting court case was THE precedent that says that it is.

Franklin even won the initial case.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_Computer,_Inc._v._Frankl....

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bjord 61 days ago
who, benjamin franklin?
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titzer 61 days ago
Sorry, they--i.e. Franklin computer.
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