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To: Kaslin
I find myself oddly...
With the evil google.

Not for the stated reasons, because computer code by its purpose and by its use properly belongs under patent law rather than copyright law.

The programming industry as a whole - even extending to people choosing to work in that field now deserve to lose anything that they might lose now.

2 posted on 03/18/2020 10:21:14 AM PDT by MrEdd (Caveat Emptor)
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To: MrEdd

There isn’t a programmer alive that hasn’t stolen code.

Damn devils the lot of em...


11 posted on 03/18/2020 11:42:42 AM PDT by Augie
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To: MrEdd

“computer code by its purpose and by its use properly belongs under patent law rather than copyright law”

I’d say it kind of depends. If you are creating an entirely new process or way of doing things or architecture, then sure, that should be patentable. However, in writing the code you are simply using an existing language to issue a set of instructions. Whatever new thing you created might be contained or described by those instructions, but the instructions themselves seem more like a matter for copyright law.


12 posted on 03/18/2020 12:00:17 PM PDT by Boogieman
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