• @einkorn@feddit.org
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    344 months ago

    Hold my bacon, one can patent the idea that a game character switches mounts depending on a given state? (Image 3)

    • TimeSquirrel
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      174 months ago

      Software patents are fucked, ain’t they? You can implement a thing using completely different code, algorithms, hell even programming languages/CPU architectures, and you’d still be infringing. There was some stupid fight over a simple slider UI element to unlock a phone a few years back.

      • @JeffKerman1999@sopuli.xyz
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        124 months ago

        Yeah software patents should be like “this exact code” or something along these lines. I mean patenting “hello world” should give you billions

        • @VonReposti@feddit.dk
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          74 months ago

          Code is already copyrighted by default, so no need for software patents. Luckily software patents are null and void in EU, so I don’t have to worry about that.

    • @Yuki@kutsuya.dev
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      224 months ago

      Seems like it. So when you come down from the sky on your flying mount and get close to the ground, you swap to a horse mount for example.

      How can one patent this… wtf!