From my experience, nobody teaches you Git properly in school. And once you get your first job, it is too late.

We had various lectures on languages models, math, algorithms, networking... absolutely nothing on git (I did my classes between 2008 and 2013, things might have changed now)

That sounds ridiculous to me... By the same logic, I could patent a car that is charged by USB (not very efficient, but eh, it's new !) and then nobody could build a car charged via USB ?

One of the strangest aspects of patents is that it is much easier to get a patent than it is to defend that patent in court.

Many patents are granted by the patent office then revoked by judges.

> I could patent a car that is charged by USB

If you paid the filing dues (a significant sum), and nobody has patented that before, then yes.

> nobody could build a car charged via USB?

Anybody could build a car powered by USB, and you could then sue them for the infringement of your patent. It could then go in many directions, from you becoming very rich, to your patent being invalidated and you found responsible for court fees.

This system is not as ridiculous as it sounds.

>This system is not as ridiculous as it sounds.

It's so not ridiculous that Amazon was able to prevent the entire ecommerce industry from implementing anything even close to a "one click purchase" flow because of a patent. Not because you couldn't see Amazon's source code for the feature, or couldn't come up with your own completely different implementation of the idea, but because as long as you can convince a completely unsophisticated and inexpert jury members that a paragraph of extremely vague text can be read in any way to apply to anyone else's system, you are violating their patent.

Imagine being able to patent addition, or the very concept of a cake, such that nobody could make a product that was bready and/or sweet without paying you a protection fee.

Remember that the US patent office had to expressly ban any patent for "perpetual motion machine", not because it is literally impossible by physical reality, but because they kept granting patents for physically impossible perpetual motion machines

You've correctly identified how patents work, at least in the U.S.

Except for the "non obvious to the practitioner" part.

Missed opportunity to patent putting a USB-C port in a car...

Thank you for this tool.

That activity look 100% to be from a paid employee to me. He works in the morning and does git maintenance in the afternoon like clockwork... Between 12 and 18... It might also have been multiple employee.

He didn't work on Christmas or new year eve which is extremely telling...

The last commit in December is on the 21st, so I'm not sure how much can be read into it.

But note that he comes back next year on the 5th, then disappears for 6th and 7th, and comes back at 8th. 7th is the old-style Eastern Orthodox Christmas, as celebrated in e.g. Russia, Serbia, and Georgia, and 6th is therefore the Christmas Eve. Although in Russia official holidays are the entire week from January, 1 to January, 8 inclusive... still, for this kind of work I wouldn't expect them to stick to the letter of the law there.