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.”

  • 9tr6gyp3@lemmy.world
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    5 days ago

    Do it., but also ensure that all work enters the public domain and is free for anyone to use, modify, commercialize, or basically whatever the GPL says.

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      Nonono, see, they will have punitive contracts with employees that will nail them to the wall if they leak source code.

      They like rules as long as they’re the one writing them.