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SubjectRe: Cherokee Nation Posts Open Source Legisation - Invites comments from Community Members
On Wed, 12 Jan 2005, christos gentsis wrote:

> second: does this US law means that everything could be a "trade
> secret"? even something like the GUI? or a process bar? and in case that
> someone will register them what is going to happens?

Only secrets can be trade secrets.

As soon as somebody else figures it out and publishes it,
it's no longer a secret, and can no longer be a trade
secret.

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"Debugging is twice as hard as writing the code in the first place.
Therefore, if you write the code as cleverly as possible, you are,
by definition, not smart enough to debug it." - Brian W. Kernighan
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