Comment by jajuuka
13 hours ago
Definitely a fantasy land ideal. Much like pitches from the Free Software Foundation of a world without copyright and IP. It's just never going to exist because reality just isn't that way.
13 hours ago
Definitely a fantasy land ideal. Much like pitches from the Free Software Foundation of a world without copyright and IP. It's just never going to exist because reality just isn't that way.
> Much like pitches from the Free Software Foundation of a world without copyright and IP.
If there exists no copyright, you cannot force an entity to release the source code of their software.
A world without copyright and IP is for sure an interesting thought experiment, but very different from the FSF vision:
In such a world, there would be much more reverse-engineering and monkey-patching of existing (non-open) software that gets copied around very liberally.
On the other hand, because there exists no enforcable copyright, companies would of course invest a lot of ressources into developing hard to crack copy protection schemes. Similarly, freedom-loving hackers would invest serious ressources into cracking such copy protection schemes.
> Much like pitches from the Free Software Foundation of a world without copyright and IP.
Didn't the big AI vendors kinda bring that to fruition?