Comment by immibis
20 hours ago
Then it really proves how much the economy would be booming if we abolished copyright, doesn't it? China ignores copyright too, and look at them surpassing us in all aspects of technology, while Western economies choose to sabotage themselves to keep money flowing upwards to old guys.
Well no, because copyright != cannot use.
"Available for use" and "Automatically rewritten to work in your codebase fairly well" is very different, so copyright is probably not the blocker technically
Yeah, I love the idea that all software could just be cobbled together from other software, but none of it does anything new.
China is not surpassing the US in all aspects of technology.
There is still much for them to steal.
The theory behind copyright is that the enshrined monopoly guarantees profits and thus encourages r&d.
China steals our r&d (both copyrighted and non) and gets a lot of theirs from state funding.
I don’t think I’d take China’s success as proof that the copyright system doesn’t work.
It is proof that intellectual property is a transient and fickle thing, easily subverted when there is no legal framework to protect it.
Sounds like you're saying state funded R&D works much better than copyright funded R&D