Category talk:Software: Difference between revisions

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the case UsedSoft GmbH v Oracle International Corp, the EU's Court of Justice explicitly ruled that people own their purchased software : ""the copyright holder transfers the right of ownership of the copy of the computer program to his customer"" [[Special:Contributions/188.150.46.200|188.150.46.200]] 00:56, 22 January 2026 (UTC)

== This category should be diffused into subcategories wherever possible. ==

Dumping every single category or page about a specific piece of software into one big category would create an unnavigable mess. A top-level category such as this one should (ideally) contain only subcategories and a handful of pages about general aspects of software that cannot be categorized further, good examples being "Software locks" and "Software as a service".

Navigation of all things software is made easier by [[:Category:Software by type|categorizing products/services by type]].

Say a user wants to search for instances of consumer rights violations for a specific video game: Software, Software by type, Video games, and finally, the specific game. Clean, straightforward, logical.

I've also noticed that there exist dozens of categories for only one single page. Surely we should wait to create product-specific categories until there is more than one page to put in them? [[User:TheOneWhoKnocks|TheOneWhoKnocks]] ([[User talk:TheOneWhoKnocks|talk]]) 05:19, 21 February 2026 (UTC)

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 the case UsedSoft GmbH v Oracle International Corp, the EU's Court of Justice explicitly ruled that people own their purchased software : ""the copyright holder transfers the right of ownership of the copy of the computer program to his customer"" [[Special:Contributions/188.150.46.200|188.150.46.200]] 00:56, 22 January 2026 (UTC)
+== This category should be diffused into subcategories wherever possible. ==
+Dumping every single category or page about a specific piece of software into one big category would create an unnavigable mess. A top-level category such as this one should (ideally) contain only subcategories and a handful of pages about general aspects of software that cannot be categorized further, good examples being "Software locks" and "Software as a service".
+Navigation of all things software is made easier by [[:Category:Software by type|categorizing products/services by type]].
+Say a user wants to search for instances of consumer rights violations for a specific video game: Software, Software by type, Video games, and finally, the specific game. Clean, straightforward, logical.
+I've also noticed that there exist dozens of categories for only one single page. Surely we should wait to create product-specific categories until there is more than one page to put in them? [[User:TheOneWhoKnocks|TheOneWhoKnocks]] ([[User talk:TheOneWhoKnocks|talk]]) 05:19, 21 February 2026 (UTC)