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We need different perspective to copyright. Besides - what is a trade secret 10, 20, 30 years ago is a common wiki article now… very often if not always.

The idea of people owning information is really beyond comprehension for me. There’s no patent for ideas, only for mechanisms or implementations.

Besides we’re already tossing world’s knowledge in our palms, all the copy shit seems so irrelevant.

I’m not against closed source or keeping trade secrets. But once a story becomes public it should be accessible at no cost or else we get where we are atm.



Copyright does not protect knowledge. If you can write a full OS from scratch, Microsoft will not come sue you because they had the knowledge before.




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