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Re:Just Enough Piracy Can Be a Good Thing by JTbane on Tuesday August 27, 2019 @11:33AM (#20810692)
Yeah, software patents are absolutely awful.

Source code is like a written recipe, you absolutely should be able to copyright it. But you shouldn't be able to patent it. All software patents do is encourage lawsuits and trolling.

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Re:Just Enough Piracy Can Be a Good Thing by teddyh on Wednesday August 28, 2019 @02:20PM (#20822486)
> Source code is like a written recipe, you absolutely should be able to copyright it.

But you can’t copyright recipies, AFAIK.

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