[andreilys]

IP rights are a cancer on society and have held back progress for generations.

From drugs, to technology, I would say IP rights have done more harm than good. Especially when you consider the number of patent trolls that waste countless of hours and money.

Humans are not islands, nothing you make is yours. It is likely a remix of someone else's idea or influence.

[bugfix-66]

I guess every generation has to rediscover why communism doesn't work.

[andreilys]

IP rights != communism.

I believe in property rights, but patenting ideas leads to such perverse incentives that the benefits rarely outweigh the cost. Often times the person isn't even the first to come up with the idea! They're just the first to patent it.

Look at the field of psychedelics for example, where there's a mad scramble to patent things as absurd as the process of administering the psychedelic.

[marssaxman]

And yet... open source software continues to slowly eat the world.

[bugfix-66]

With open source software you receive something very valuable: social capital, credit, respect.

Communism is where you do the work (or don't) and everybody is rewarded equally.

That's the Copilot model: you work hard to write the code, and receive nothing in return, because now everyone and their 10-year old brother can write it simply by asking for it... and your name never appears.

You were robbed.

[marssaxman]

I wasn't robbed; I gave it away on purpose. I don't care if my name appears; credit was never the point. Sharing back to the community which has shared so much with me is enough.

[bugfix-66]

People like you can EXPLICITLY OPT IN to being used by Copilot or Dall-E.

The rest of us aren't so selfless.