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.”

  • JeSuisUnHombre@lemm.eeEnglish
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    6 days ago

    The large majority of resources and facilities are owned by a small minority of wealthy individuals whose only goal is making money. People with more interest and passion in the field in question would continue to innovate as long as they had the resources to do so.

    • Ulrich@feddit.orgEnglish
      01·
      6 days ago

      People with more interest and passion in the field in question would continue to innovate as long as they had the resources to do so.

      But…they don’t. And if you removed IP law then they still wouldn’t…