Jack Dorsey, co-founder of Twitter (now X) and Square (now Block), sparked a weekend’s worth of debate around intellectual property, patents, and

Jack Dorsey, co-founder of Twitter (now X) and Square (now Block), sparked a weekend’s worth of debate around intellectual property, patents, and copyright, with a characteristically terse post declaring, “delete all IP law.”

X’s current owner Elon Musk quickly replied, “I agree.”

  • crusa187@lemmy.mlEnglish
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    15 days ago

    Scratch beneath the surface and you’ll find unscrupulous greed here as well.

    • void_turtle@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
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      15 days ago

      The reason Musk wants this might be greed, but it’s very stupid if that’s his reason. A huge amount of the US’s global economic power comes from strong-arming the rest of the world to enforce US patents and copyright, thus funneling trillions of dollars from the rest of the world to the US. Without any patents or copyright there would be improved Chinese Tesla copies on the market within a year.

      • AdrianTheFrog@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        15 days ago

        The Chinese market already has better EVs than Tesla for cheaper afaik. Teslas don’t sell well there anymore.