| I'm not operating on any fallacies at all. First of all, it's not a straw man. Spellcheckers were standalone applications for years before word processors began integrating them. [1] And second, it's not a slippery slope fallacy, it's an actual slippery slope, that's the whole point. There isn't a "pretty clear distinction" at all. If I understand you correctly, you're arguing that when spellcheckers came out, the existing products should have been able to legally prevent WordPerfect (and eventually Word, and Docs, etc.) from ever building their own integrated spellcheckers. To this day, you'd need to buy Word, and then buy a separate spellchecking app or extension. But there's no distinction between spellchecking and 100 other features that Word has that also used to be separate programs -- like mail merge, like drawing capabilities, like a citations manager, etc. etc. etc. And you really think that would be a good idea? [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spell_checker#History |