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   LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Saturday, 08-Jul-2023 03:02:50 JST LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864}
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     GNU Too (gnu2@gnusocial.jp)'s status on Saturday, 08-Jul-2023 04:41:40 JST GNU Too

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     @lnxw48a1 It's certainly stupid, but from what I know of US Corporate law relating to unplublished IP like trade secrets, it may actually have legal teeth. Particularly when you figure judge and lawyers have little, if any, concept of software development. Like rms has said if the current IP laws existed in the 80s not only would GNU not exist, but there is a very good chance the majority of computers wouldn't be significantly better than they where in the 80s. !sns
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     @gnu2 I have felt for some time that judges' and legislators' tech illiteracy threatens all of us. What happens if one of those "the Internet is a series of tubes" guys gets a key judgeship?
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     @gnu2 >Like rms has said if the current IP laws existed in the 80s not only would GNU not exist, but there is a very good chance the majority of computers wouldn't be significantly better than they where in the 80s.
     I don't believe rms said that, unless he said that decades ago, when he didn't realise that it was a terrible idea to overgeneralize between copyright law, patent law, trade secret law, trademark law etc: https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/not-ipr.html
     
     If the current patent laws and software patents existed in the 80s, GNU probably could exist, but it wouldn't have been a success, as most of the software development couldn't proceed until after 20 year waiting periods.
     
     
     I wouldn't say that computers are that much better than they were in the 80s - sure they're much faster and have nicer peripherals, but they're a hell of a lot more proprietary and aren't documented (unlike most 80s computers).
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