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So I guess anything requiring significant R&D will on success become part of Microsoft Teams or AWS after <10 years (seven? six?), providing them with essential
by dividedbyzero 4y ago
So I guess anything requiring significant R&D will on success become part of Microsoft Teams or AWS after <10 years (seven? six?), providing them with essentially free R&D and incentivising smaller companies to lock in users and abandon products frequently.
- zerodensity 4y agoIf something fits either Microsoft Teams or AWS and is successful for some other product they will copy it way before any competing closed source opens up. Not doing so will be bad for business.
- autoexec 4y agoIt means all the copyrighted code used in Teams and AWS will also become free for everyone to benefit from. That's the entire deal. It's better for everyone, better for art, and better for tech when information and culture is freed and people can incorporate it into their own works as well as learn from and build on what came before them. Copyright only protected those works for a limited time to encourage the creation of new works by making financial success possible but not perpetual. In a world where we can publish globally in an instant and at near zero cost, seven years or so is plenty of time to make investment worthwhile, no matter if that investment is in time, talent, or R&D. It's not as if the copyright owner (which for commercial works is almost never the same person as the creator) can't make money on something just because it's in the public domain either.