• Dr. Moose
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    222 months ago

    even worse. software patents are just more idiotic copyrights.

    • @SkunkWorkz
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      32 months ago

      Might be about a design patent

    • @[email protected]
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      12 months ago

      Dunno, I think I prefer patents. Unlike copyright, patents usually last a flat twenty years. Copyright expires either after 95 years or 70 years after the death of the author, which is ludicrous. Both are constantly abused, but at least patents expire in a reasonable amount of time.

      • Dr. Moose
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        12 months ago

        patents and copyright are pretty different though. IMO both are bad but you can at least make a case for protecting intelectual work from copying. Patents protect replication of ideas and ideas don’t have to be unique at all. If I say it was my idea to call variables a,b,c,d,e in that order that means anyone who wants to do that in their creations needs my permission which is fucking bonkers.

        I’m convinced that software patents exist purely for regulatory capture.