About 1/4 of the way through this article I started thinking about the IBM BIOS story. Where Columbia Data Products used 'clean room design' to clone the original BIOS for IBM PCs. Allowing IBM PC Compatible computers to take over the world...
CDP basically had a team reverse engineer the original BIOS and produced a written specification of what every function should do. Another team was then handed the spec and produced their own code that did the same thing.
In this case if Baio had Photoshopped the Maisel image then I would have a problem with it, but if he interpreted and recreated it manually then good for him.
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Yes, and then Hollywood will see how well Netflix is doing and demand a bigger slice of the pie. If you can't innovate, legislate....
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I wish this site had a "clueless" button. Because this post is neither insightful or funny but neither is it offensive enough to report.
Damn, just realised that I've wasted even more of my life on this...
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About 1/4 of the way through this article I started thinking about the IBM BIOS story. Where Columbia Data Products used 'clean room design' to clone the original BIOS for IBM PCs. Allowing IBM PC Compatible computers to take over the world...
CDP basically had a team reverse engineer the original BIOS and produced a written specification of what every function should do. Another team was then handed the spec and produced their own code that did the same thing.
In this case if Baio had Photoshopped the Maisel image then I would have a problem with it, but if he interpreted and recreated it manually then good for him.