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>Should I be allowed to charge for the right to interoperate with it? No. >What if ... just for my own hardware? No. >What if I just want certain select par
by cwel 10mo ago
>Should I be allowed to charge for the right to interoperate with it?
No.
>What if ... just for my own hardware?
No.
>What if I just want certain select partners?
Sure, you can select between the DoD or Langley.
- wat10000 10mo agoSo anything which communicates between two pieces of hardware wouldn’t be covered by IP laws?
- selfhoster11 10mo agoIdeally, yes.
- barnabee 10mo agoYes. It seems pretty obviously true to me that there should be no legal right to prevent interoperability and no recourse against adversarial interoperability. The right to say "Compatible with X" or similar where X is a brand should also be protected.
- wat10000 10mo agoSo I sit down and invent some wonderful new interconnect. It would be be a big advantage to put it into certain kinds of video equipment. I don't make any video equipment, so I license it to companies that do. Should this be impossible? New communications tech should only be created as trade secrets, by industry-wide consortia, or altruists? This is getting close to arguing against IP as a general concept. Which I don't really object to very strongly, but presenting it as a special carveout for communication doesn't make sense to me.