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By that logic Ford should copyright a cars brake and gas pedal and force other manufacturers to design completely new interface systems to stop and accelerate c

by swozey 10y ago

By that logic Ford should copyright a cars brake and gas pedal and force other manufacturers to design completely new interface systems to stop and accelerate cars that aren't brake or gas pedals. Sounds great /s. I don't even know where Cloning WordPress came into your thought process. WordPress runs on top of Apache/nginx. That is what responds to ws.com/a. Interoperability is incredibly important, unless you want to go back to having to run a specific Web browser for every other website that isn't using Web standards / rfcs.

imayzon 10y ago
Actually car companies are starting to patent vehicle control interfaces, (for e.g. Teslas patents for Sunroof control interface [1], Audio Control interface [2], etc) If the current craze of IP-as-offensive-weapon were the trend back in the days where basic vehicular controls were being defined, I think we would have seen some similar behavior from car companies - (and in my opinion, their case would be more defensible than Oracle's software API copyright protection). [1] http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20140403ptan20140095029.php http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20140403ptan20140095029.php [2] http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20140403ptan20140096003.php http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20140403ptan20140096003.php Edit: typo
forrestthewoods 10y ago
Ford's API could be copyrighted. Sure. Why not? Every car manufacturer has their own software. Why would you even want Ford's version? The braking API isn't "bool braking;". And acceleration isn't "float accel; // [0,1]". Those systems are wildly complex. Ford's copyrighting of their API does nothing to prevent another manufacturing from making their own.
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