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by witx 3 days ago
You know also what was the biggest help for these companies? All the data they scrapped from the internet, the books they torrented, the open source projects whose licenses they did not respect.

The least these companies can do is to publish everything they own

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> The least these companies can do is to publish everything they own

Well, being able to talk to superintelligent all-knowing savant 24/7 on your phone for $20 a month is also something

You people really have rotten morals
Well if it's moral for gatekeepers of talent to hoard immense intellectual rights to be protected by the violence of the state, then I'm immoral in that sense. Information wants to be free
> Information wants to be free

Only ever said by people who have never put in the effort to create any information of value.