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seemaze • yesterday at 2:24 PM • 1 reply • view on HN

I sure the intended word was copyright[0], as in to protect against getting sherlocked.

[0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyright


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robotresearcher • yesterday at 5:49 PM

Copyrights protect the literal text of your program and binaries. Not the design and functionality. Getting Sherlocked is having your functionality duplicated, independent of the code itself.

No one thinks Apple violated Sherlock copyright. They just made it (nearly) functionally redundant.