[SDL] CSDL with quad-buffering and a seperate flip-thread

[Bob Pendleton]

Jason Hoffoss wrote:
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Bob Pendleton" <bob at PENDLETON.COM>
> To: <sdl at libsdl.org>
> Sent: Wednesday, March 13, 2002 5:11 PM
> Subject: Re: [SDL] CSDL with quad-buffering and a seperate flip-thread
> 
> 
> 
>>BTW, I can be sued whether or not you have signed and NDA or looked at
>>the code. They can sue even if there is no reason to believe that you
>>did anything wrong. (Look up SLAPP.) They can win a suite even if you
>>have never signed an NDA or looked at the code, they just have to prove
>>that you could have looked at the code.
>>
> 
> Wouldn't they need to prove beyond a resonable doubt that you did look at
> their code?  Seems like that's what they would need to do.  Just because one
> could have looked at the code doesn't mean they did.

Nope, this isn't crimincal law, this is civil law. All they have to do 
is show a "prepderance of evidence." That is, if you could have looked 
at the code, and then you produced something very much like the code, 
then the odds are that you did look at the code.

IANAL, but I have bothered to read some text books written for engineers 
on the subject of intellectual property and contract law. If you do not 
understand the basic rules of a game you can not win. When you don't 
bother to learn the basic rules that your entire society operates 
under... You are screwed!

> 
>    -Jason
> 
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