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2025-08-29 02:19 UTC
@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.
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@jazaval@mastodon.social 2025-08-29 06:31
@StaticR @leeloo @lianna the issue is that software work is not like engine work. an individual making their phone do something is about 1 person-week’s effort from them making a million phones do that same thing. a person making their engine do something is about a person-century’s effort to multiply to the same number of engines.