Open Source Software Community - it's about ethics in Code of Conducts

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emergenigger said:
The problem is that there is no order as it stands which defeats the purpose of the legal system (copyright) in the first place, and needs to self-justifice its existence.
The purpose of the system is what it does which apparently is a well-oiled Kafkaesque machine designed to (legally) rape you into submission.
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out of curiosity, what order do you want that we don't have? system def. isn't close to perfect, but the united states has the most permissive set of copyright rules in the developed world. strong protections for parody, no retarded moral rights regime, fuck in europe architects can stop you from photographing their building. little guys have much better luck in court here than in other countries.
 
dame dudi jench said:
out of curiosity, what order do you want that we don't have? system def. isn't close to perfect, but the united states has the most permissive set of copyright rules in the developed world. strong protections for parody, no retarded moral rights regime, fuck in europe architects can stop you from photographing their building. little guys have much better luck in court here than in other countries.
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Maybe I'm being an idealistic asshole and just being bitter.
Then again I've seen jokes online stating that one should not read google patents as a DD if you wanna dodge a patent claim as everything cool is most likely patented.
 
dame dudi jench said:
out of curiosity, what order do you want that we don't have? system def. isn't close to perfect, but the united states has the most permissive set of copyright rules in the developed world. strong protections for parody, no retarded moral rights regime, fuck in europe architects can stop you from photographing their building. little guys have much better luck in court here than in other countries.
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Europe isn't as uniform as the US fortunately (however much the EU tries to make it so).

emergenigger said:
Maybe I'm being an idealistic asshole and just being bitter.
Then again I've seen jokes online stating that one should not read google patents as a DD if you wanna dodge a patent claim as everything cool is most likely patented.
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Software patents are a retarded US invention, so if you're not in the US it doesn't matter (part of the reason ~all multimedia open source development is outside the US).

edit: and not just open source tbh., I'd argue it's one of the reasons Fraunhofer had the talents it had, if you're interested in technology in a field covered with patents in the US you're fucked.
 
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I'm having similar feelings towards Stoat that I do towards BlueSky. Is it really all just gonna be groomers and pedophiles!?
 
Speaking of these Discord clones, Discord could probably sue all of them for trade dress infringement, and they probably will if any of them starts gaining ground.
 
volatile puar said:
Speaking of these Discord clones, Discord could probably sue all of them for trade dress infringement, and they probably will if any of them starts gaining ground.
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They already C&D'd Revolt/Stoat for their UI.
They don't have much grounds though, most of their stuff was just stolen from Tiny Speck and painted dark purple
 
emergenigger said:
Maybe I'm being an idealistic asshole and just being bitter.
Then again I've seen jokes online stating that one should not read google patents as a DD if you wanna dodge a patent claim as everything cool is most likely patented.
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Yeah totally the whole edifice looks rotten. The patent examiners are mortal and lots of stuff gets patented that shouldn't - the good news is you can still challenge the validity of a patent when you're sued, you can argue the patent is invalid.

Also, in many circumstances software patents are easy to work around, and software patents are generally disfavored by scotus. The federal circuit court of appeals is an appellate court that isn't geographical like the other circuits, it hears appeals on PTO issues and from the court of federal claims.

The fed cir institutionally expands patent law and makes it more complex, establishing complex multi-factor tests that in practice means a judge can get whatever result they want. However, scotus thinks this is stupid and doesn't let these specialist courts create their own complicated regimes, so software and business method patents get pushed by the fed cir and then hemmed back by scotus. It's an active political struggle, the bad guys win sometimes, but the good guys also win, so in this context black-pilling, IMO, just hands victories to the bad guys. https://arstechnica.com/features/2018/06/why-the-supreme-courts-software-patent-ban-didnt-last/
 
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