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Remove software patents and we'll have megacorps absorbing smaller businesses for free through theft of IP instead of acquisitions, and all the antitrust protec
by Jenk 4y ago
Remove 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.