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Jack Dorsey and Elon Musk would like to ‘delete all IP law’ | TechCrunch (techcrunch.com)
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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.”

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[–] spankmonkey@lemmy.world -1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I assume that the way that Dorsey and Musk want to 'get rid of them' means for everyone else and will be terrible.

But that doesn't have anything to do with the fact that before patents and copyright people made all kinds of things and had zero reason to not make something just because someone else cpuld too. That is a made up theory of yours that has no basis in reality.

[–] Ulrich@feddit.org 0 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

I assume that the way that Dorsey and Musk want to 'get rid of them' means for everyone else and will be terrible.

What does that mean? Who is everyone else? You think they only want IP for themselves? No, they don't want new companies to be able to innovate. Because then they could steal their ideas and apply their wealth to them to make a superior product. Thus no one would be able to compete with them. Pretty rational idea, don't you think?

had zero reason to not make something just because someone else cpuld ~~too~~ steal their ideas they've invested millions of dollars to create and sell the same product at a lower price, thereby bankrupting the company that made the investment to bring that technology into existence.

FTFY. Please do not intentionally misrepresent my statements.