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This is cool, but I would assume he's violating any number of patents in order for it to work properly. (perhaps that's why it's closed source?)
by swalsh 14y ago
This is cool, but I would assume he's violating any number of patents in order for it to work properly. (perhaps that's why it's closed source?)
- guard-of-terra 14y agoI don't think it's the main reason. If he really wanted to open source it he could do it anyway. What can the respective patent holders do? "Bring it on", get bad press, no money (assuming he doesn't make any off this) and Streisand effect. Assuming he does want to make money off this, it makes sense to hold source (or indeed the whole prototype) closed for many reasons.
- noonespecial 14y agoYou can't 'hello world' without that being true these days.
- cma 14y agoSoftware isn't patentable in the EU.
- pbhjpbhj 14y agoYou're wrong http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_patents_under_the_European_Patent_Convention http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_patents_under_the_Euro....
- pbhjpbhj 14y agoUnless he's using the patented inventions commercially then he's fine. Note that free-gratis distribution can be a commercial use.