Posted by: Anonymous Coward
on September 16, 2006 06:16 AM
I understand well the points about software patents, but I wanted to get some opinons about copyright. What if a programmer decided to write closed source software, would be okay if he/she decided to copyright their work?
The way I understand it, patents can keep others from doing a particular task (they are so broad when it comes to software), while copyright would keep somebody from using a particular set of code to complete a task.
Am I off base here? What do you think of copyrighting code?
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Posted by: Anonymous Coward on September 16, 2006 06:16 AMThe way I understand it, patents can keep others from doing a particular task (they are so broad when it comes to software), while copyright would keep somebody from using a particular set of code to complete a task.
Am I off base here? What do you think of copyrighting code?
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