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Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, April 27 2012 @ 06:36 PM EDT |
I like the book-writing analogy, but it never did make sense, and it still makes
no sense today - to this very day! ;) - in places that don't allow patents on
software.
It also makes no sense in light of the functional nature of code. Code is by
nature primarily functional and only secondarily expressive (in a different
context from which it is functions - as in self-documenting code).
On the other hand, comments (to the extent that they are literary expression and
not merely scenes a fair or bare facts, which often they are) and
representations of artistic/musical/audio-visual/etc. works that are embedded in
software as data should be protected, but nothing else, except maybe by some
kind of unfair competition law (for example trademarks, although I'm not
suggesting that trademarks are the right solution, either).[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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