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ungzd
on Sept 20, 2017
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GraphQL Patent Infringement Issues
But if you are using ideas from their software, you are infringing patents too.
perpetualcrayon
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I'm obviously not condoning patent infringement. The idea is to learn from useful ideas and implement a non-infringing equivalent as an open source project. You can't patent "math", or "computer science", or ideas comparably broad.
moocowtruck
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you shouldn't be able to patent a query language for a graph either but here we are
koolba
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Well duh thats the idea. Then they can sue you. More work for FB's legal team too.
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