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by Glyptodon 2602 days ago
You linked to the 1992 version, which was replaced in 2018.

Among other things, section 1.5 was always a disaster because copyright and patent are not natural rights, but special privileged statuses granted to (in theory) promote the accrual public benefit, and there's no reason practitioners should be required to subscribe to copyright or patent maximalist perspectives.

Section 2.8 was too broad because it didn't take into account security researchers, stuff like insulin pump hacking, etc., (which also ties back to 1.5 being too heavy handed).

Not that the 2018 version is tons better, but it tries more.