Re: General Question
- From: Robby <Robby@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 16 Dec 2008 08:59:03 -0800
Hello Barry,
There is nothing wrong in getting some insight from a bunch of anonymous
strangers.
I own a Corp!
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Best regards
Roberto
"Barry Schwarz" wrote:
On Sun, 14 Dec 2008 17:43:01 -0800, Robby.
<Robby@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Hello,
I am programming micro controllers in C language. It is obvious that the
code must be programmed so to handle hardware inputs and outputs in a real
time
fashion. And therefore I am finding myself coding a kernel which retrieves
hardware and software signals from lower level program and sending them off
to a message queue for further processing. This is quite similar to the
Windows ideology of processes its signals. I then use a message loop to
retrieve these messages and send them to the appropriate winproc function.
All this is done in a very similar way as we do win32 programming. Obviously
I am not doing everything exactly as Windows does, but you get the idea.
Therefore I have messages such as WM_PAINT, WM_CREATE and so forth. Except I
call them KM_PAINT and KM_CREATE and so forth. Also I have created similar
functions such as ShowWindow() and InvalidateRect() and so forth. Again,
although I do use the same mesage and function names, their contents are not
the same as the ones we use in Windows. Basically, instead of just doing a
big program in C which would be totally unfamiliar to a new programmer, I
have decide to use a Kernal which would look familiar to a C programmer and
trying to use objects as much as possible.
I don't know if this is the right community to ask my question, although I
would like to know your opinion. My question is....given the fact that I am
using similar names and programming mechanics as Windows is, is there any
probabilities that I may run into any infringement issues?
For example, a function like ShowWindow() will show a Window just as Windows
does, but the contents of this function will be nowhere the same as the
typical ShowWindow() function used in win32. Although it may have the same
parameters?
In your opinion am I headed for trouble if I continue this way?
Your sincere feedback is appreciated!
You are asking for legal advice from a bunch of anonymous strangers.
Odds are the advice will be worth even less than you pay for it. Even
if a lawyer were to respond, you don't know his qualifications to
address intellectual property issues and he doesn't know which legal
system has jurisdiction over where you will perform this act of
possible infringement.
Are you doing this for your company as part of your job? If so, don't
they have a legal department?
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