Jack Dorsey, co-founder of Twitter (now X) and Square (now Block), sparked a weekend’s worth of debate around intellectual property, patents, and

Jack Dorsey, co-founder of Twitter (now X) and Square (now Block), sparked a weekend’s worth of debate around intellectual property, patents, and copyright, with a characteristically terse post declaring, “delete all IP law.”

X’s current owner Elon Musk quickly replied, “I agree.”

  • Ulrich@feddit.orgEnglish
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    11 days ago

    So much of what I do is restricted because someone else has 30 years left on what they patented.

    If they didn’t patent it, that technology never would have existed in the first place for you to steal from.

    I think the best solution would be a much shorter exclusionary period for patents.

    100% agreed on that account.

    In short: if your goal is pure profit, yeah removing IP probably hurts this a little

    “A little”? If there’s no IP you just pay a janitor or an employee a million bucks to send you all the information and documentation and you manufacture the product yourself and undercut the company actually engineering the product so they can never be profitable.

    Like, this all seems very obvious to me…