Re: US Law applies worldwide
In a sense that's true, or the reverse is true, as courts in the US have ruled over and over the same thing they ruled in the EU: You can copyright code, but you can't copyright behavior.
I'm baffled by this.
What SAS institute has done is to rest on their collective laurels for a couple of decades, then complained when someone else did what they'd done.
What makes it even more puzzling is that there are open-source stats packages which *also* do the same thing, although they are not quite so polished.
You know the saying: Hell is full, and the dead are walking Research Triangle Park.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
