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> good ideas are more valuable for society the faster they spread and the cheaper they are to put into use. that’s a great insight and a very true diagnosis. it’s also why open source is so important. do you know concepts (besides communism) trying to solve this “noble, but hungry” dilemma?
I don't know that dilemma pls explain
sorry for the confusion. i was referring to your idea that today’s economy pushes creators to copyright their ideas. if someone decided to make their IP open (noble), the options to make a living seem limited. curious if there are alternative models (value-for-value?) that could create a win-win scenario. thanks for the sunday mind stretching:)
Good authors can, among other things, be paid by benefactors and by those who want first access to the material. There are a bunch of programmers who create license-free programs, partly voluntarily and often because they receive grants from both companies and benefactors. Intellectual property is completely unnecessary and leads to enormous resource waste and misallocation of scarce economic resources, including far too many who believe they can get rich by writing books.