Post #1320275
2025-08-28 22:01 UTC
@leeloo @lianna @StaticR yes, but I did not buy any of the patents or cleverness that make it work. if I want to make changes to the engine, I am depending on such cleverness to do so, not just the physical presence of the object I purchased.
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@lianna@micro.webgarden.click 2025-08-28 22:03
@jazaval @leeloo @StaticR Are you trying to say that learning how the engine works is piracy, because you're circumventing the proprietary "cleverness"? If so, lol.
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@StaticR@guild.pmdcollab.org 2025-08-29 02:19
@jazaval @leeloo @lianna pretty sure you can do that actually, as long as it remains street legal you can make modifications to a car's engine, patent law has nothing to do with that. Though that isn't really analogous to installing apps on a phone because apps typically don't make changes to the core OS, they're just a layer on top. For the car analogy it'd be more like installing your own dashcam.