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As far as I know, you can write your own poetry. The way how you would describe a love or chair, does not make you owner of those abstract or real things. Softw

As far as I know, you can write your own poetry. The way how you would describe a love or chair, does not make you owner of those abstract or real things. Software code here is only a language of that poetry. >>I mean it would be nice if it doesn't. If we were applying medieval guild based rules to software development, there would be no evolution of software at all. There would be no mobile phones(maybe one - not series, but one phone) and personal computers - and also no PUBG, which like all the successful software has borrowed ideas from other software. With such draconian rules, there would be no market for those things, that we have now. Isn't it nice - you can make your own web browser, that does not differ that much from others, or OS, or a game...

dathinab 5y ago
> evolution of software at all If we just enforce existing US patent law wrt. software related things, then not only would there be no evolution. There would be an apocalyptic collapse of the whole software industry, and beyond. The question is often less if we have sane laws but more how they are used/enforced. In case of software related patents they often aren't. But often aren't doesn't mean they never are, we just have been lucky until now as no one was stupid enough to force it... And copyright law is I think even more messed up then patent law... so I don't think your argument holds.