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In a world without copyright employees can leave at will and continue to use all the code they wrote.

• kube-system 5y ago
  Not if they sign NDAs, which is exactly what many companies require employees to do now, and what even more will do if copyright doesn’t exist.
  • breck 5y ago
    The government should not be in the business of policing NDAs. NDAs will go the same way as non competes in California.
    • kube-system 5y ago
      There’s no way this would realistically happen. Business and government rely highly on NDAs to do business. NDAs are the legal/contractual resolution mechanism that resolves disputes when business partners backstab each other. If you remove that mechanism, the problem will still exist, it’ll simply get filled with another resolution mechanism. Maybe a return to mob rule?
      • breck 5y ago
        > Business and government rely highly on NDAs to do business. And there's no reason for this other than to preserve power in the hands of the powerful. The sole purpose of the NDA is to limit the rights of the party with less capital and create unnatural advantages to the holders of capital. They eventually cause great social harm, and society ultimately pays the price cleaning up the mess. How many hundreds of billions of dollars in security costs does our society keep having to pay because of Microsoft and Intels reliance on NDAs and copyrights which led to building much of the digital world on shaky foundations. Like technical debt, there is "secrecy debt". Too much leads to catastrophe. People should have the right privacy and to keep secrets. But our collective government should not be in the business of subsidizing that.