[GavinMcG]

But copyright doesn’t deal with secrets. Just the opposite: it gives control over something that one has made public and attaches upon publication.

[User23]

Sure, but it’s an alternative way a large SaaS provider might attempt to defend whatever competitive advantage its code provides. I’m not saying it’s equivalent or even as good, just that a company with good data controls could probably grow large absent IP laws.

We’d probably also see rapid advances in homomorphic encryption to enable deployed software.