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Google owes $338.7 mln in Chromecast patent case, US jury says::Alphabet's Google violated a software developer's patent rights with its remote-streaming technology and must pay $338.7 million in damages, a federal jury in Waco, Texas decided on Friday.

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[-] anlumo@feddit.de 2 points 1 year ago

Most open source software also relies on copyright. The GPL doesn’t work without it.

[-] gapbetweenus@feddit.de 0 points 1 year ago

Obviously you would need a complete overhaul of the system.

[-] anlumo@feddit.de 1 points 1 year ago

That's why I'm not in favor of completely abolishing copyright. It should protect for a much shorter time, like 10 years, though. For example, companies would be free to use a ten years old Linux version (3.10 would be the newest affected version) and do whatever they want with it, but for newer ones the GPL protections would still apply.

[-] gapbetweenus@feddit.de 0 points 1 year ago

I'm more radical, I'm for removing copyright and forced open source.

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