• TimeSquirrel
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    1713 hours ago

    Software patents are fucked, ain’t they? You can implement a thing using completely different code, algorithms, hell even programming languages/CPU architectures, and you’d still be infringing. There was some stupid fight over a simple slider UI element to unlock a phone a few years back.

    • @JeffKerman1999@sopuli.xyz
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      1211 hours ago

      Yeah software patents should be like “this exact code” or something along these lines. I mean patenting “hello world” should give you billions

      • @VonReposti@feddit.dk
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        710 hours ago

        Code is already copyrighted by default, so no need for software patents. Luckily software patents are null and void in EU, so I don’t have to worry about that.