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> if you work in the software industry today, IP protection is part of what keeps you paid What about software people working at Google, Facebook, Amazon, and

• pavlov 10y ago
  Google, Facebook and Amazon own plenty of copyrights and patents. I don't see them campaigning to eliminate IP law. Even though the corporations release a lot of open source, they probably prefer the current status quo of explicit licenses placed on code they choose to release, rather than an alternative world of all code being in public domain. I don't see how it would be to Google's advantage if source code had no IP status at all: an ex-employee could keep a copy of the Google source tree and legally put it on Github.