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Afaik it's patented.
https://www.reddit.com/r/MacOS/comments/qlnwzx/window_snapping_should_be_the_default_window/hj490vu
Damn tell that to literally every single Linux WM lol
That's, for example, how VLC can use patented codecs. France doesn't allow for software patents, meaning that as VLC is produced it France, they can use all the codecs they want...
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Patents, copyright and trademark do nothing but make rich people richer and stifle innovation.
They encourage creation. Trademarks are different. In order to do so properly, they should be far more limited.
Right now the forever copyright means no one can remix sixty year old stories
Right now patents are issued for trivial IT "inventions" which stifle competing products.
Trademarks are fine. They are intended to protect you from misleading products. They let Apple sue people that sell stuff which might mislead you into thinking it's an apple product.
Of course trademarks are also abused, for example Apple uses trademarks to prevent recycling iPhone parts. That couple be fixed.
You can't even reprint 60-year-old stories.
Lemme get this straight. Microsoft successfully got a patent for a feature that KDE had before Windows did?