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> If you write some source code, intending it to be proprietary (for your operating system, for example), and I obtain it somehow, you'd be screwed under this s
by Supermancho 5y ago
> If you write some source code, intending it to be proprietary (for your operating system, for example), and I obtain it somehow, you'd be screwed under this system.
Securing that only you can use some arbitrary machine instructions under IP law is an abomination, so I'm ok with this.
- notJim 5y agoSure, maybe you'd be into it, but the thousands (?) of companies making money off the current system would not be. Being that we're talking about a capitalist system, that seems like something that needs to reckoned with. It goes beyond computer stuff too, of course. Let's say you write a hit song and I hear it and manage to release my version first, so I reap all the profits. Under this libertarian utopia, I guess you're supposed to just rob me at gunpoint to get "your" money back?
- Supermancho 5y ago> companies making money off the current system would not be. Same thing was probably said when there was talk of banning cocaine from foodstuffs. Corporatism rarely pushes moral (or stable) principles.