• pimento64@sopuli.xyz
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    11 months ago

    A law like this would effectively kill all licensed software that isn’t a full product

    What I’m hearing is: this law needs to be a constitutional amendment.

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      11 months ago

      Hmm I may be confused. Do you believe that software companies shouldn’t be allowed to build and sell libraries? I.e. They should only be allowed to sell full products, ready for an end user?

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        11 months ago

        Yes.

        I am aware that this would kill SaaS overnight, that’s an intended feature.

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          11 months ago

          Fair enough regarding sass, though I disagree with the opinion.

          But I’m asking about builders of partial software. For example, consider a single developer that builds a really great library for handling tables. It displays a grid, displays text in cells, maybe performs some operations between cells, etc. On its own, this software is useless but is very useful for other people to build other products. Should it be illegal to sell this software?