Re:Apple's New Pinch-To-Zoom Monopoly is Bad News
by mcantelon on Tuesday August 28, 2012 @11:41AM
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>When such innovations become possible, they will need to be protected.
The underlying implementation details should be protected, sure, but not the idea itself. Just because you're the first to successfully make a flying machine doesn't mean someone competing with you, implementing it in a different underlying way, shouldn't be able to make a flying machine.
The underlying implementation details should be protected, sure, but not the idea itself. Just because you're the first to successfully make a flying machine doesn't mean someone competing with you, implementing it in a different underlying way, shouldn't be able to make a flying machine.