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OpenGL Floating Point Textures No Longer Encumbered By Patents, Enabled In Mesa
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Originally posted by caligula View Post
Disney has such huge influence due to the fucked up politics and cronyism. The majority would disagree with such practices in a free democracy consisting of educated people.
That said, when Disney started pulling in foreign workers, and at the end fired a host of local citizens in Orlando that kinda was the last straw with some of the local citizenry and started some backlashes against sweet (all one sided) land tax deals. I can only hope that the enmity that Disney has started to generate curtail their national lobbying effects as well. I guess it has somewhat, they haven't tried to buy another copyright extension yet as Steamboat Willie reaches the end of copyright coverage next year.Last edited by stormcrow; 18 June 2018, 04:04 AM.
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Originally posted by nanonyme View Post
You can't really keep things trade secrets in software industry unless you keep it locked up in an inaccessible server. Everything gets reverse engineered sooner or later
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Originally posted by caligula View PostWell, currently the best we can hope for is that patent terms become shorter.
Originally posted by caligula View PostSame could be said about the copyright terms. Life + 70 years (+ 75/80 years in some countries) is way too long.
Originally posted by kaprikawn View PostWhy would they put something that is encumbered by patents in the OpenGL spec?Last edited by Nille; 18 June 2018, 04:45 AM.
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Originally posted by ptyerman View PostHave their place where? Software is mathematics and algorithms, neither of which is patentable.
The issue is the lenght of the patent, 20 years is an eternity, still less insane bs than copyright that is like a century, but removing patents at all would mean that everything would become a closely-guarded trade secret, which is much worse for innovation.
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Originally posted by stormcrow View PostI can only hope that the enmity that Disney has started to generate curtail their national lobbying effects as well. I guess it has somewhat, they haven't tried to buy another copyright extension yet as Steamboat Willie reaches the end of copyright coverage next year.
If you know what I mean.
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Originally posted by caligula View Post
Well, currently the best we can hope for is that patent terms become shorter. The industry won't tolerate the total absence of patents. 10 years sounds a lot better than 20. 20 years not only gives you a competitive edge, but totally eliminates open source competition until the tech is totally obsolete.
Same could be said about the copyright terms. Life + 70 years (+ 75/80 years in some countries) is way too long. The (C) wasn't designed to support your great-grandchildren.
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Originally posted by kaprikawn View PostWhy would they put something that is encumbered by patents in the OpenGL spec?
Could Khronos / OpenGL / Vulkan protect itself from this in future? Something in the license stating that extensions to OpenGL cannot be patent-able.
I doubt this will weaken OpenGL / Vulkan. The alternatives Direct X and Metal just are not desirable these days. Plus if we can get these two even more encumbered with patent crud, it might even reduce their uptake even more
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