Category talk:Software

If a page is in its company's category, and that company is in Software Company category, and that category is in Software, should that page also be in Software Category

This is something that happens, and is in my opinion, a mess. My solution is to get rid of "software company" as a category. It should all go in Software to prevent circular categories. or diamond category trees. Plankton (talk) 20:18, 19 October 2025 (UTC)

Agreed. I see that you've already started tidying it up, and am happy for you to continue! Keith (talk) 20:23, 19 October 2025 (UTC)

god youre fast. Do you think "Software companies" should be removed from "software". it would tidy things up so much Plankton (talk) 20:24, 19 October 2025 (UTC)

Yeah. it feels like the products should be falling under software, and the companies should be separately sitting under software companies category. Can't think of anything which should be sitting under both (except maybe a one-product software company?)

Only fast cause I happened to be looking at the feed at the time lol. Keith (talk) 21:03, 19 October 2025 (UTC)

i fixed it Plankton (talk) 21:04, 19 October 2025 (UTC)

Thanks! Keith (talk) 21:16, 19 October 2025 (UTC)

Also, Why is "Software Companies" in "Software" to begin with ? Shouldnt they be seperate ? Please someone give input on this. Plankton (talk) 20:23, 19 October 2025 (UTC)

@Plankton the categorization system in some places is a mess never fixed since around February. AnotherConsumerRightsPerson (talk) 05:43, 22 October 2025 (UTC)

It makes logical sense for a top-level category called "Software" to encompass all other topics and categories directly related to software. Software terminology, software companies, software types, etc. TheOneWhoKnocks (talk) 04:57, 21 February 2026 (UTC)

For Anyone in The EU a Court Precedent has been set.

here is the link to the court precedent: https://curia.europa.eu/juris/liste.jsf?num=C-128/11

here is a little snippet of what it says :

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"" 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 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? TheOneWhoKnocks (talk) 05:19, 21 February 2026 (UTC)