Intellectual property law is overreaching these days, but they can't turn _everything_ proprietary. For example, the answer to "what's the longest English word with no repeated letters?" is still uncopyrightable.
Simon Tatham
Free software developer and hobby mathematician.
Author and lead developer of #PuTTY, and "Simon Tatham's Portable Puzzle Collection", a set of one-player puzzle games running on many platforms. Also various smaller or less well known things.
- Web site
- https://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/ verified