Re:Amazon DocumentDB, with MongoDB compatibility
by deanCommie on Thursday January 10, 2019 @07:23AM
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You could describe inventions as "facts" too, are you saying that inventions shouldn't be patentable as well?
Maybe the fundamental properties of the universe aren't copyrightable/trademarkable/patentable, but what you CHOOSE to do with those - what API you design or what widget you build out of it certainly is.
Re:Amazon DocumentDB, with MongoDB compatibility
by int_19h on Thursday January 10, 2019 @07:03PM
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Patents and copyrights are two very different things, though. I don't know if APIs are patentable, but that's a very different question. Has anybody ever successfully patented an API?
Maybe the fundamental properties of the universe aren't copyrightable/trademarkable/patentable, but what you CHOOSE to do with those - what API you design or what widget you build out of it certainly is.