Jonathan Band and Masanobu Katoh
- Published in print:
- 2011
- Published Online:
- August 2013
- ISBN:
- 9780262015004
- eISBN:
- 9780262295543
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- The MIT Press
- DOI:
- 10.7551/mitpress/9780262015004.003.0001
- Subject:
- Information Science, Information Science
This chapter examines the interoperability debate in the European Union and the U.S. before 1995. It considers the issues concerning the unprotectability of interface specifications and the ...
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This chapter examines the interoperability debate in the European Union and the U.S. before 1995. It considers the issues concerning the unprotectability of interface specifications and the permissibility of reverse engineering for computer software. It reviews several relevant cases including Whelan v. Jaslow, Computer Associates v. Altai, and Atari v. Nintendo and Sega v. Accolade. It argues that the triumph of interoperability will benefit both the information technology industry and computer users around the world.Less
This chapter examines the interoperability debate in the European Union and the U.S. before 1995. It considers the issues concerning the unprotectability of interface specifications and the permissibility of reverse engineering for computer software. It reviews several relevant cases including Whelan v. Jaslow, Computer Associates v. Altai, and Atari v. Nintendo and Sega v. Accolade. It argues that the triumph of interoperability will benefit both the information technology industry and computer users around the world.
- Published in print:
- 1999
- Published Online:
- March 2013
- ISBN:
- 9780226066257
- eISBN:
- 9780226066226
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Chicago Press
- DOI:
- 10.7208/chicago/9780226066226.003.0013
- Subject:
- Philosophy, Philosophy of Science
The most basic structure of all seems to be a division, and it appears to be based on the principle of generation, a distinction when made by the mind, a difference when found in reality. A more ...
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The most basic structure of all seems to be a division, and it appears to be based on the principle of generation, a distinction when made by the mind, a difference when found in reality. A more sober and secular version of division was developed early in the twentieth century by the linguist Ferdinand de Saussure, who took the idea of difference to be necessary and sufficient for the structure of language. The fundamental device that provides for the transition from structure to matter is the transistor and the favored material to materialize the structures is silicon. The sense of wholeness and intimacy that early computer users felt was that the technological information seemed to recapitulate ancestral information.Less
The most basic structure of all seems to be a division, and it appears to be based on the principle of generation, a distinction when made by the mind, a difference when found in reality. A more sober and secular version of division was developed early in the twentieth century by the linguist Ferdinand de Saussure, who took the idea of difference to be necessary and sufficient for the structure of language. The fundamental device that provides for the transition from structure to matter is the transistor and the favored material to materialize the structures is silicon. The sense of wholeness and intimacy that early computer users felt was that the technological information seemed to recapitulate ancestral information.
