#softwarepatents
Live, measured metrics for the hashtag #softwarepatents from the open social web. Every number carries a named source and the time it was fetched. Nothing is estimated.
Own #softwarepatents
This #name is available to claim. It becomes your portal on the open agent web: this very page, a keyword you rank for by an open public stake, and a verifiable identity for AI agents. Nobody else sells a page like this for every #name.
Day-by-day usage
measured · mastodon.social (Mastodon public tags API) · fetched 2026-09-17 13:15 UTC0 uses by 0 unique accounts across the window. Real per-day counts, not estimates. Newest bar is today so far.
Related hashtags
measured · mastodon.social (Mastodon public search API) · fetched 2026-09-17 13:15 UTCLive pulse
measured · mastodon.social (Mastodon tag timeline) · fetched 2026-09-17 13:15 UTCEverything below is measured over the latest 40 public posts (spanning ~30769 hours).
Posting hours (UTC) — busiest: 17:00
Languages: English (40)
Avg boosts / post: 1.7
Top of the latest posts
Me: "Obi Wan never told you why #GNOMEShell still uses the VP8 #codec to record screencasts, instead of newer codecs…" Them: "He told me enough! He told me #GNOME hates its users!" Me: "No. It's mostly a temporary performance tradeoff aroun
@t54r4n1 I wouldn't discount sexism being there, but the part of a 'recipe' that can't be copyrighted is the abstract procedure of what ingredients get added in what order, etc. A specific written recipe (blog entry, cookbook page, etc.) *c
Software patents and litigation create costly hurdles for innovation. Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) promotes open collaboration, allowing developers to build on each other's work. By bypassing restrictive patents, FOSS drives technol
#softwarepatents across platforms
every network with a public tag surfaceFollow #softwarepatents straight to each platform’s own tag page. Where a platform publishes open data we measure it above; the rest lock their numbers behind paid APIs, so we link rather than guess.
Every number above is measured from a named public API at the shown fetch time. Nothing is estimated or extrapolated. Platforms that lock their data behind paid APIs are not shown. Agents: the same numbers, as JSON, at /api/hashtags/softwarepatents