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8:06:31
jackdaniel
so close. all I wanted to work is functional now. at the moment I'm fixing things which were broken before branching (i.e over-compositums as inks)
8:08:52
jackdaniel
but there is still a lot to do (re-adding xrender transformations for images implemented by loke, text transformation for truetype renderer etc)
8:11:44
jackdaniel
uh oh, they plan to patent mcclim: https://patents.google.com/patent/US20180239622A1/en
8:40:56
jackdaniel
while the mechanism was first invented in Italy to make people copy ideas (!) from other countries
8:42:17
jackdaniel
from ethical standpoint "secret recipes" are much better, because you are not prohibited to invent something on your own without knowledge about said recipe
8:43:19
jackdaniel
I acknowledge the fact, that many people would disagree with such standpoint (however it is a pretty common standpoint among software engineers)
8:55:44
loke
Also, how many times did you understand an idea after reading its patent? That was the whole purpose of them to begin with; to share ideas.
8:56:05
loke
Noe they are written as obscurely as possible in order to cover everything that the author didn't even intend.
8:57:33
jackdaniel
loke: whole purpose of them (to begin with) was to incentivize investors in italy to import inventions from other countries (and as a reward, they had a 5y monopoly for said inventions)
9:00:17
jackdaniel
I'm not sure if this wiki article goes into historical background of that, I've read about it in another source
9:08:49
loke
Speaking of rights (well, copyright and not patent, but that one is equally messed up):
9:10:44
jackdaniel
I think that false claims should be penalized enough to discourage industry with automatic filters like this
9:12:38
loke
Most of the time I'm quite happy with EU decisions but they really screwed up this time.
9:14:02
jackdaniel
I'm not very excited with many things coming from EU decisions, but this one is a disaster ineed