> "most code is worthless, there is very little that really should be protected" I think a better analogy would be that most parts of software (i.e. functions)

> "most code is worthless, there is very little that really should be protected" I think a better analogy would be that most parts of software (i.e. functions) can be thought of as words in literary works, it's not how you spell them but rather how you string them together that makes the work unique.