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You can't, Autodesk owns the software patents and massive amounts of IP. You impliment their features, you're sued to non existence. Remove software patents, we
by devwastaken 4y ago
You can't, Autodesk owns the software patents and massive amounts of IP. You impliment their features, you're sued to non existence. Remove software patents, we will have competition again.
- Jenk 4y agoRemove software patents and we'll have megacorps absorbing smaller businesses for free through theft of IP instead of acquisitions, and all the antitrust protection (as limited as it may be) instantly evaporates.
- marssaxman 4y agoIt is copyright law, not patent law, which prevents the scenario you describe. Patents are useless to small businesses unless you are in the business of patent-trolling. Try to sue a big corporation and they will just countersue.
- luciusdomitius 4y agoIt is extremely naive to think that ServiceNow would be able to steal a feature from e.g. the PM part of GitLab. The reason why their products are even more obnoxious than paper bureaucracy is definitely not that noone ever told them what they are doing wrong. Same applies for MSFT, Oracle and as of recently Google and Facebook too.