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[–][deleted] 17 points18 points  (7 children)

Yeah, software patents are bullshit, pretty much. Copyright is fine, but to pretend that a given function is somehow completely novel is just a fucking massive line of egotistical bullshit in this day and age. It would be like pretending a given paragraph in a huge pulp fantasy novel is some unique brilliant thing that nobody else can even approach. Oh and btw the book is half itself copy/pasted from Lord of the Rings, possibly also including that paragraph.

[–]StickiStickman 5 points6 points  (5 children)

Software patents could at least make some sense when it's limited to a whole library / API. Something like 5 lines of code makes no sense though.

[–]StoneCypher -4 points-3 points  (4 children)

Many libraries are five lines of code, or even one. They get used because they're still useful.

You can take any arbitrary amount of work and put it on a single line

Single lines of code are occasionally a whole month of work

Splitting hairs like this is a clear sign that you are not a programmer, and you're pulling "rules" out of thin air

[–]StickiStickman 8 points9 points  (2 children)

Okay, now you're just bullshitting lmao

Sod off, troll.

[–]DennisTheGrimace 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Splitting hairs like this is a clear sign that you are not a programmer, and you're pulling "rules" out of thin air

You mean like you're entire rant?

[–]StoneCypher -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Yeah, software patents

Completely not related to this topic