Comment on China unveils video of its moon base plans, which weirdly includes a NASA space shuttle

• Buttons@programming.dev ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Not always. As John Carmack said:

  The idea that I can be presented with a problem, set out to logically solve it with the tools at hand, and wind up with a program that could not be legally used because someone else followed the same logical steps some years ago and filed for a patent on it is horrifying.

  Many people have created things entirely from their own mind, and then find that they’re violating IP law.

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