I know about software patents but what’s the point when somebody can achieve the exact same functionality from the user’s perspective using totally different code. Just seems like a waste on a patent lawyer.

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    2 months ago

    Isn’t that the point, though. Allow someone to profit from it rather than make it free to use. If there is another way to do it, that is not patented but free, they will use that, even if the code is objectively worse. See media codecs for example at the moment.