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The paradox is that their IP was obtained by distillation of the collective IP of humanity.
by mihaic 2mo ago
The paradox is that their IP was obtained by distillation of the collective IP of humanity.
- WarmWash 2mo agoI'm sure all those stackexchange experts will be getting their checks for helping launch countless software projects over the last 20 years any day now...
- mihaic 2mo agoYou're basically saying that since open source projects can be reused by others, the people making closed source projects shouldn't complain when the same thing happens to them. Everyone posting on Stack Overflow knew it would be public and free. Book authors put an explicit copyright notice, which includes derivations of their work.