spoken like a [ very ] young person, with the nearsightedness that comes from that I was in school for 16 years I ran a company for 14 years I moved to my farm more or less yesterday and have been here 8 years now 20 years is an eyeblinkhttps://twitter.com/cmzinner/status/1439987283239870464 …
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A Jedi uses the Force for knowledge and defense, never for attack.
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Ugh. I see his point but it doesn't make sense to talk about this stuff in terms of human lifespans. Guy invents something, gets exclusive rights for 15 years, then for *the rest of human history* that invention is free to copy. THAT is how you analyze the tradeoff.
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The conversation 'should' be about whether that invention would have come about if there was no IP regime to protect it. If not, then 15-20 years exclusivity is a PITTANCE to pay for adding this innovation to the pile of human knowledge that pushes us forward as a species.
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False-equivalent: Good software must be maintained. Anyone who’s ever played an online video game with software updates knows this. It sucks that you advocate for professional graft. IP is based on first-to-file, not first-to-document-the-idea, i.e. nothing but gov’t racket.
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Star Control 2 is free - which is bad! - but provides a nice counterpoint. The corporate entity that owned it died, but instead of the rights reverting to the creators, it went free.
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