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Re:Defending your app from copies and clones by makecheck on Friday February 23, 2018 @02:22PM (#16448619)
If patents were usefully enforced and practical to obtain, it would matter who files first because that’s how patents work.

The $20,000 part of patents (and additional legal fees) are a problem because we are clearly at the point economically where tons of people who need stronger protections will never have the resources to obtain those protections. You can’t do that when it’s impossible to sell anything for more than 99 cents.

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Re:Defending your app from copies and clones by 0xCMP on Friday February 23, 2018 @02:57PM (#16448921)
And we can't expect everyone to pay more for many of these things when there is so much inequality, lack of wage increases, student debt, etc. etc. etc.

Of course I go ahead and pay $50/year for ulysses or $20 for each Things 3 app, but my sister won't pay $3/m to iCloud on her filled up iPhone nor $5/m to Spotify or Apple Music to listen to music.

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