[Haskell] Re: [Haskell-cafe] Work on Video Games in Haskell

[John Meacham]

On Thu, May 27, 2010 at 08:41:02PM -0400, Pierre-Etienne Meunier wrote:
> > If this ever gets to court, we may have a criterion imposed on us,
> > possibly one as silly as the distinction between programs and
> > algorithms said to be made in patent-land.
> 
> I really do agree with your post, but what I dont get is why Apple does not intent anything against George Hotz, who publicly acknowledged having disassembled his iphone for performing FPGA black magic on it, and would sue someone for refusing objects and mallocs in programming.
> 
> This makes me wonder if they really have the legal means of doing anything.

Sure, they have the legal means to simply deny your program access to
the App store. They don't need to sue you, you did nothing wrong by
writing a haskell->c compiler and writing a game in it. They just won't
distribute it. They are already under no obligation to distribute your
work or make it available.

        John

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