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This should be no surprise. The case was weak. Copyright offers no practical intellectual protection for software. And in this case the software in question
by petegrif 15y ago
This should be no surprise. The case was weak. Copyright offers no practical intellectual protection for software. And in this case the software in question was reverse engineered!
- alextingle 15y ago> Copyright offers no practical intellectual protection for software. Tell that to all the people who whine about the GPL.
- noonespecial 15y agoCopyright offers the most important protection software can have. If you want the result, you have to do the work again. Unlike patents that close off entire avenues of advancement just for being the first to add "with a computer" or "on the interwebs" to the end of some obvious activity, copyright acknowledges that you can do just about anything with a general purpose computer but if you want to do it, you've got to put in the effort yourself or pay someone who has. Copyrights make you write your own code. Patents prevent you from writing your own code.