Re:Defending your app from copies and clones
by Zanni on Friday February 23, 2018 @04:57PM
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Yeah, this is just bad advice. I think for most indy developers patents aren't worth the trouble for defending your IP against other indys--which, in the context of the article is probably what he meant. But for defending yourself against major players? Absolutely. And if you want a major player to buy you (instead of buying one of your competitors) it'll be the key differentiator.
Re:Defending your app from copies and clones
by paulcole on Monday February 26, 2018 @06:48PM
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> But for defending yourself against major players? Absolutely
The point is that you have no chance to defend yourself. Can an indy developer afford a legal defense of the scale required to "defeat" a major player? If they can will it even be worth their time and energy?
Marco is coming at from the perspective that everyone is a nerd, reads hacker news and knows the difference between "free beer" and whatever the other one is.
Most, nay, all software companies get shit patented. It's the difference between having a legal document protecting your ideas and, well, not.