Re:Medical Device CEO Catches Stranger After Hours, Promptin...
by toss1 on Thursday September 21, 2017 @12:26PM
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Well, we agree about the economic acts of war, but not about IP theft.
Open source is great, but your original argument would say that it's OK not only for me to copy and republish your works, but also to close-source it under my name.
It'd also be OK for me to take your journal, edit it a bit, and publish it. Then you might die because of my editing rather than your actions.
No question, IP rights as constructed are often abused. We might also note that SpaceX is not using patents, but trade secrets because of this. And just because it's not patented, doesn't mean that Elon would not be justifiably pissed if the secrets got stolen.
Stealing is still stealing, and we need to understand that just because part of the bundle of rights to some IP still remain behind (e.g., the original copy remains), that something valuable hasn't been stolen.
Open source is great, but your original argument would say that it's OK not only for me to copy and republish your works, but also to close-source it under my name.
It'd also be OK for me to take your journal, edit it a bit, and publish it. Then you might die because of my editing rather than your actions.
No question, IP rights as constructed are often abused. We might also note that SpaceX is not using patents, but trade secrets because of this. And just because it's not patented, doesn't mean that Elon would not be justifiably pissed if the secrets got stolen.
Stealing is still stealing, and we need to understand that just because part of the bundle of rights to some IP still remain behind (e.g., the original copy remains), that something valuable hasn't been stolen.