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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

• ceejayoz 8mo ago
  > 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?
• aleph_minus_one 8mo ago
  > 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.