I think it might be, there's no way Anakin would be able to buy proprietary hardware or software. So either he stole it, which his mother probably would not have allowed. Or he was able to scrap all the parts together because there is a template for humanoid protocol droids that we have also seen round Star Wars. And then the software itself either Anakin programed entirely himself, (which I know he's very smart, but even that seems a stretch) or he forked it. So it would make more sense that there was an open source catalog of protocol droid software. It also would make more sense due to the fact that a lot of people have droids, but they are not all created equal. I would think many of the droids on Coruscant were proprietary, while many of the droids in the outer rim are open source.

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[–] 54 points 8 hours ago (8 children)

There are tons of protocol droids in universe. He cobbled scrap bots together. Clever, but he didn’t invent or program it. More like fancy legos

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  • [–] 31 points 7 hours ago (3 children)

    Incorrect. Anakin programmed Threepio with the desire to serve his mother and with the six languages he spoke at the time.

    I would agree its more like modification than building from scratch, but he still had to get in there and noodle with everything. Programming was absolutely involved.

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  • [–] 24 points 7 hours ago

    I could see this being more like code blocks instead of actual software engineering. He probably found the different language modules and stuck them all in, and then did the equivalent of changes to a config file.

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  • [–] 16 points 7 hours ago

    He did not "program" 6 languages. Even if he was a super genius and spoke 6 languages, there's physically not enough time for Anakin to have typed the entire vocabulary and grammar of 1 language, much less 6.

    Imo, his "programming 6 languages" was plugging in 6 hardware language modules and running a command to load them.

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  • [–] 5 points 6 hours ago (3 children)

    Sounds like copyright infringement to me

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