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.
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.
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.
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.