<story><title>Defending your app from copies and clones</title><url>https://marco.org/2018/02/22/your-app-was-copied</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>whalesalad</author><text>&amp;quot;Only assholes get patents.&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;Marco rubs me the wrong way. Blanket statements like this are not meaningful.&lt;p&gt;What the post is saying is: there is nothing you can do. At the end of the day it doesn&amp;#x27;t matter who does it first, it matters who does it best. Do it best and you&amp;#x27;ll win.&lt;p&gt;Very clickbaity title. This could have been a tweet (and it was: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;twitter.com&amp;#x2F;sandofsky&amp;#x2F;status&amp;#x2F;966721199052013568&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;twitter.com&amp;#x2F;sandofsky&amp;#x2F;status&amp;#x2F;966721199052013568&lt;/a&gt;)</text></comment>
<story><title>Defending your app from copies and clones</title><url>https://marco.org/2018/02/22/your-app-was-copied</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>magnetic</author><text>I was a bit disappointed with the content of the article.&lt;p&gt;On the style, the generalization &amp;quot;Only assholes get patents&amp;quot; turned me off quickly.&lt;p&gt;But on the content itself, there wasn&amp;#x27;t much in there that related to the title of the article &amp;quot;Defending your app from copies and clones&amp;quot;: the author talks about copyrights, and trademarks (not patents, because apparently it&amp;#x27;s only for assholes), but explains how little use it is: am I supposed to be encouraged or discouraged to follow those paths?&lt;p&gt;Then the rest seems to be an exercise in despair, convincing you that there&amp;#x27;s nothing you can do anyways and you&amp;#x27;re screwed.&lt;p&gt;I ended the read a bit perplexed, as I wasn&amp;#x27;t able to squeeze any substantific marrow.</text></comment>