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0 pointspabs311mo ago0 comments

Ideas are not copyrightable, so you can't prevent anyone from using them without keeping them secret, and even then folks might come up with the same idea independently.

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alganet11mo ago

They are patentable though. Feels like you should have mentioned it.

I could have kept it a secret and made a book about it, tying my name to it forever.

However, I want my domain specific languages to run free. People not getting in my nerves about them anymore would be enough compensation.

pabs3OP11mo ago

True, although software patents aren't supposed to be a thing in some places, so your success in protecting software ideas might be location dependent, or time dependent as case law changes. Thats probably why I forgot about them.

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