It's something that DESIGNERS DO. its called iterative design. It's a simple idea. You create visualistions, you stand back, you scan for problems, you fix the problems, you create new AND VARIOUS representations and stand back, and look for problems, and repeat, and repeat, and repeat......
To people who cannot see the point of this, all I can say is THANK GOODNESS LINUS IS RUNNING THE SHOW and not.....
Point taken that patents are a tool to avoid recreating the DARK AGES. Patents were created to prevent the locking away of knowledge that you mentioned, BUT the timeframes for the age of mechanical reproduction are not valid in a digital age. I fully support copyright for software, but not patents of software!
If governments want to create innovation in software design, BAN CLOSED SOURCE! As for ignoring special America's choice, let America stifle itself. Live in a country that values people over corporate profit.
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It's something that DESIGNERS DO. its called iterative design. It's a simple idea. You create visualistions, you stand back, you scan for problems, you fix the problems, you create new AND VARIOUS representations and stand back, and look for problems, and repeat, and repeat, and repeat......
To people who cannot see the point of this, all I can say is THANK GOODNESS LINUS IS RUNNING THE SHOW and not.....
Point taken that patents are a tool to avoid recreating the DARK AGES. Patents were created to prevent the locking away of knowledge that you mentioned, BUT the timeframes for the age of mechanical reproduction are not valid in a digital age. I fully support copyright for software, but not patents of software!
If governments want to create innovation in software design, BAN CLOSED SOURCE! As for ignoring special America's choice, let America stifle itself. Live in a country that values people over corporate profit.