[MonoDevelop] Monodevelop brother

[Emiel van de Laar]

Christoph Wille wrote:

> At 10:21 AM 6/28/2004, Emiel van de Laar wrote:
> 
>>> Sure , you can look at the source code , I have taken lots of ideas from
>>> sharpdevelop , Eclipse and Visual Studio but I have not used source code
>>> from any of this products.
>>> Some interfaces may have property names , methods or comments similar 
>>> to SD
>>> or VS (its normal , I have learnt form them) .If you find any 
>>> copyrighted
>>> code I will remove it for sure , but please don't acuse me of using
>>> copyrighted code before even analize the code.
>>
>>
>> I'm currently working on a similar framework, but not necessarily 
>> focused on IDE's. I have studied Mono- and Sharpdevelop, Eclipse and 
>> others. These are all impressive pieces of engineering and I have 
>> learned a lot from them. Because I have studied them I wouldn't be 
>> surprised if I define similar interfaces. My question is, how far can
>> a person go? Defining the interfaces is a large portion of the work,
>> especially when designing a framework.
> 
> We are talking implementation. Interfaces in certain framework areas 
> tend to be "patternized" over their lifetime.

Just out of curiosity, could these interfaces be patented in some way?
I have several design pattern books on my desk and can definitely see
their usage in these frameworks. The patterns used in building 
frameworks could just be considered common knowledge then?

Cheers,

Emiel
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Emiel van de Laar