Comment by teekert
1 day ago
And we just don't think about all the software that is then not being created because people feel it's immediately everyone's property and so won't even bother?
Sure, we can copy software, so it's not like they are taking your house. But "they" may be taking your livelihood.
Ok, objectively perhaps the world would be better, but we can't know. And opinions don't mean anything. What matters is individuals and being fair to them, whatever society grows from that is just what we have.
That said, if we ever go multi-planet, and there is a planet with no copyright and everything is GPL, I'd check it out and imagine I'd feel quite at home there.
> Sure, we can copy software, so it's not like they are taking your house. But "they" may be taking your livelihood.
With GenAI that's starting to happen with anyway.
Which is why we perhaps need a GPLv4? With some provisions that force open sourcing model architecture + weights when using such code as training material?
And also provisions somehow handling hyper scalers. Hyper scalers are big enough that they can build everything from scratch and stop ripping off FOSS individual and small company contributors.