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Maaaaaybe. I am not a fan of software patents but intellectual property laws are the only thing stopping Big Company A from just cloning Small Company B's produ
by AndrewStephens 4y ago
Maaaaaybe. I am not a fan of software patents but intellectual property laws are the only thing stopping Big Company A from just cloning Small Company B's product. At least now they have to go to the trouble of buying them.
Of course, it goes both ways and laws often favor the strong against the weak. But it is not all one-sided.
- netr0ute 4y ago> Big Company A from just cloning Small Company B's product That's called competition
- erklik 4y ago> intellectual property laws are the only thing stopping Big Company A from just cloning Small Company B's product Is that really the case? Does it work? Isn't Instagram basically cloning TIkTok right now? and cloned Snap before that? Apple with Alfred, Spotlight, F.lux etc are also examples. Seems like for software, either patents aren't utilized or simply can't be enforced.
- AndrewStephens 4y agoInstragram/TikTok/Snap aren't exactly novel ideas, the only valuable thing about them are the brands (also intellectual property but not what we are talking about). I only know VMWare from its days as virtualization software. I would put money on them having had a bunch of patents on the specific techniques they used. Software patents sometimes work out, sometimes not. If I were king of the world I wouldn't get rid of them but narrow the scope down to protecting specific implementations, none of this "Buying stuff of the internet" pantenting that invested the 00s.
- yjftsjthsd-h 4y agoWasn't there a whole thing about big tech companies interviewing small companies as if to acquire them and then just cloning the product anyways?
- captaincaveman 4y agoMost small companies don't have patents, or ones that matter.