Humans are just sets of atoms, so protecting them is disconnected from reality?
These reductionist arguments lead nowhere. Fortunately, IP lawyers -- including Microsoft's who are fiercely pro IP when it suits them -- think in a more humanistic way and consider the years of work of the IP creator.
Food recipes are irrelevant; the often go back centuries and it's rather hard to identify individual creators. Not so in software.
These reductionist arguments lead nowhere. Fortunately, IP lawyers -- including Microsoft's who are fiercely pro IP when it suits them -- think in a more humanistic way and consider the years of work of the IP creator.
Food recipes are irrelevant; the often go back centuries and it's rather hard to identify individual creators. Not so in software.