Can't believe this shite is ongoing wasting time of folk like @joshbloch - It's simple - if any idiot can *copy* your API and replicate a drop-in replacement - the underlying IP is not protectable - it's clearly trivially replaced. And fuck any law/lawyer that says otherwisehttps://twitter.com/joshbloch/status/1195420570013188096 …
And if you think your 'idea' is protectable... if I can duplicate the effect trivially and at little/no cost disadvantage its garbage... and any law/lawyer that says otherwise can also fuck off.
Simply. If I can trivially Xerox it, you've lost novelty / control - so
basically