On Fri, 16 Mar 2018 03:22:18 +0000 (UTC), Uultred ragnusen
wrote:

Ken Blake wrote:

It's not a matter of functionality not existing. No two pieces of
software that essentially do the same thing do it in exactly the same
way.

Yup. I used to sell to the government, where they asked me to give them a
list of things, however minor, that our software did that the competitor
didn't do - and then - they wrote /that/ list into the bid contract.

Trust me -


I'll be polite and bite my tongue rather than reply to that statement.



the competitor's product was essentially the same functionality
as ours - but they weren't /exactly/ alike.