Industry Misinterpretations 133: Smalltalk and FPGAs
This week Michael and I spoke to Jecel Mattos de Assumpcao. We spoke to him as part of the Squeak boarda few weeks ago, but this week we talked to him about his background in Smalltalk, and some of the interesting work he's done with custom hardware and Smalltalk implementations. It was a wide ranging talk, and a lot of fun. To listen now, click here.
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Smalltalk and clones
[Jecel Assumpção Jr] April 26, 2009 14:11:14.632
I failed to make the connection between the context (the brazillian market full of clones running pirated software) and the advantages of a Smalltalk computer:
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[] April 27, 2009 13:50:13.267
I see that I did not answer Michael's question about current copyright (if it is good for software development). I have always been a huge fan of Free Software and don't like the current trends in copyright laws, though software patents are a far larger threat to progress. What I did say was that different rules inside and outside the country caused problems. Either a stronger copyright protection inside the country (so that local programmers could have made money) or weaker protection outside (so foreign companies couldn't become so rich) would have made cloning less compelling.