[long] Re: Legal traps in open source

[Sam Couter]

David Gibson <david at gibson.dropbear.id.au> wrote:
> abstract things are very different from
> physical things.  It shouldn't be surprising that building them
> requires a different approach.

What we call "building" is usually really design. Programming is just
more detailed design.

What we do is really research, too. Unless the problem is already very
well known and has been solved a few times in different ways, we're just
experimenting.
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