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To: OldDeckHand
There are 10s of thousands of lines of code in the average new car today. Plenty of room for intellectual property challenges there.

/johnny

37 posted on 09/13/2010 2:15:45 PM PDT by JRandomFreeper (Gone Galt)
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To: JRandomFreeper
"There are 10s of thousands of lines of code in the average new car today. Plenty of room for intellectual property challenges there."

Sure, if you extrapolated that code from whatever PROM they were encoded on, then repurposed and resold just the software, I'm sure you would be sued, and I'm sure you'd lose.

But, the license for that particular software allows the user to resell it as part of the car it was initially installed on. This case isn't that.

45 posted on 09/13/2010 2:21:14 PM PDT by OldDeckHand
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