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About the calculus for the project

About the calculus for the project

Posted Feb 10, 2012 16:11 UTC (Fri) by landley (guest, #6789)
In reply to: About the calculus for the project by marcH
Parent article: A tempest in a toybox

"s/copyright/patent/"

Let the backpedaling commence.

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About the calculus for the project

Posted Feb 10, 2012 16:45 UTC (Fri) by marcH (subscriber, #57642) [Link]

> "s/copyright/patent/"

No.

The copyright system is not perfect and probably too hard but it's fair and basically working. The current patent system is completely broken and totally unfair.

Imagine you write some code, then I copy and massage a few lines of it and bang I get the copyright on the whole thing. This is how the copyright system would look like if it were managed by the USPTO.


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