thinking alike

["Morris Krok" essence@xxxxxxxx]

  When one becomes deeply involved with a topic, often one can become
aware of an important aspect without hearing it from someone or reading
about it in a book But once awareness or attunement happens in this way,
one finds substantiation in a book that we are drawn to, or a person who has
similar thoughts. This phenomenon is an inidication that one is in contact
with wisdom ethers of life - the wisdom that has to be manipulated and
moulded according to the innovation and creativeness of the attunned mind.
  One of the biggest debates in the mathematical world: who first
developed the calculus, or was it developed simultaneously by Newtown and
Liebnitz who had no contact as they lived in different countries?
  In xywwweb.u2, a program I find most useful is callnext written by
Robert. It opens on the screen files from a directory sequentially. I added
the XP function sothat it would open an XPL program in expanded view.
  However, before I knew of U2, I had written a similar program to do the
same thing call calchng which I used mostly in Xy3, but now I only use
callnext as it is more efficient and does more. This shows that ideas cannot
be really copyrighted as there is such a thing as thinking alike.
  This brings me to a specific programming code that the designers wish to
be copyrighted, when the logic behind it is already part of the language
used to write the program; another programmer independently used a similar
approach. Can this be regarded as an infringement?
  Prd+ was suing XYquest for the shorthand program which is only a minor
part of XyWrite.