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by coldtea 1289 days ago
>Well, first, let's note that you can do all of those things now, legally. It's MIT licensed. If your argument is that without a strong intellectual property discipline in place, this would inevitably happen, your burden is to explain why this isn't happening.

Because you cherry-picked an example. This (separate publishing profiting from the same work) has been happening time and again to musicians and authors - even to those under copyright protection -- the only difference is that those have some legal recourse, and have been shutting down those alternate editions.