As an extreme example, imagine if 0.5" steel pipe and every process to create it was patented and you were required to buy a license to make or use that kind of pipe in any design of your factory. Part of over-regulation includes the over-enforcement of patents and copyright in general. There are many cases of court battles over very dumb pieces of "stolen software" because the signature of a function such as MegacorpA's max(integer1, integer2) matches the signature in MegacorpB's function.
The desire is for the market to be driven by competition, and you can't truly be pro-competition and heavily pro-IP. Names and trademark are different because of fraud control and names aren't an requirement to produce a product.
In addition a lot of very old software is protected by copyright, even though you can't purchase that software or the hardware it used to run on anymore. A famous example was super mario 64, you couldn't sell or distribute SM64 or a Nintendo emulator for the past 20 years because Nintendo had the IP, even though Nintendo wasn't selling n64s nor that game anymore. Imagine if KFC had a copyright for fried chicken. Chicken can only be fried so many ways.
TL;DR The market should be pro-competition and the pedantic overenforcement of proprietary software is anti-competition.
As an extreme example, imagine if 0.5" steel pipe and every process to create it was patented and you were required to buy a license to make or use that kind of pipe in any design of your factory. Part of over-regulation includes the over-enforcement of patents and copyright in general. There are many cases of court battles over very dumb pieces of "stolen software" because the signature of a function such as MegacorpA's max(integer1, integer2) matches the signature in MegacorpB's function.
The desire is for the market to be driven by competition, and you can't truly be pro-competition and heavily pro-IP. Names and trademark are different because of fraud control and names aren't an requirement to produce a product.
In addition a lot of very old software is protected by copyright, even though you can't purchase that software or the hardware it used to run on anymore. A famous example was super mario 64, you couldn't sell or distribute SM64 or a Nintendo emulator for the past 20 years because Nintendo had the IP, even though Nintendo wasn't selling n64s nor that game anymore. Imagine if KFC had a copyright for fried chicken. Chicken can only be fried so many ways.
TL;DR The market should be pro-competition and the pedantic overenforcement of proprietary software is anti-competition.