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[newskybox]

This is absolutely true.

I remember during an internship in a big bay area company, my manager recounted how their competitors would sue over the most nebulous patent infringements to cause months of delays while devs rearranged code around and cleared it. It got so bad, they literally signed a 5 year long ceasefire. He told me the whole story like he was a world war 1 vet.

[cherubinth]

A patent delayed the industrial revolution by 20 years

[mintx]

I'm gonna patent 0s, you guys can use 1s just fine.

[tc]

My old man worked at an aerospace company, his colleague got so good at reverse engineering patents he was able to spin off his own company and retire handsomely. He would especially use failed patents, and figure out why it didn’t work. It’s odd hearing how broken patents are for software. It’s basically “hey I thought of that first!”

[kambaalayashwanth]

Programmers don't even read documentation, forget about complex patents reading😂

[yahmn]

Being unaware of patents does not grant you any kind of protection against them. Looking at patents will, however, eat away at your hopes and dreams, as you will come to realize that it is impossible to make anything without infringing on a multitude of patents.

[AJMansfield]

I had a project once that might be best referred to as "software necromancy" that involved resurrecting an entire proprietary compiler toolchain from twenty years ago to compile firmware for a particular Texas Instruments DSP.
The patent text of the patents for this product was actually extremely helpful in figuring out what the hell this piece of the product was even supposed to do.

[boredSoloDev]

"the fucks a patient" - me getting served

[iggswanna]

im going to patent the idea of suing people. so anyone that tries to sue will be sued for suing illegally

[BoopyTheFox]

Society is at a state "Rules are made by winners and winners are made by breaking rules" and this is fuxking sad. Literally "do what you're told not to do and succeed, or die doing nothing at all"

[WRYU]

Me, walking into Microsoft, 437 printed patents under my arm and a lawyer on the phone in my other hand:

[sacredgeometry]

Most software is so unbelievably simple to reverse engineer.

[Wyvernnnn]

French software engineers: is this a software patent joke that I'm too french jurisdiction to understand?

[dybnik]

As a patent attorney, I tell this to my clients' engineers all the time. I say, if you know anything about what your competitors are doing, please let me know, but DO NOT take this as an invitation to go try to learn what they are doing.

[tsunamic]

We once had a company claim the way they ordered their bits in a udp packet was proprietary. Not the data they sent. Just the order the sent it in. We had to change it.

[qmlpvhk]

Your honor, I've never looked at a patent. The idea for boka-bola is 100% my own

[Ale-telt]

"Don't ever, for any reason, do anything to anyone for any reason ever, no matter what, no matter where, or who, or who you are with, or where you are going, or where you've been... ever, for any reason whatsoever..."
Michael Scott.

[fredflintstone]

Great great great advice. It give you perfect plausible deniability. Years ago I was involved with a case where one software company was trying to sue another software company started by a couple of guys that used to work for them. It was a long miserable process and cost the parties involved hundreds of thousands of dollars in lawyer fees. You would be surprised at how many companies want to own the rights to things like, 'if statements'.

[SergioFayaFernández]

you are creating me the necessity to look at them now

[YouAreSoMadRN]

“Did you look at patents before starting your company?”
“No”
“He got us there, Mike”