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Re:Software licensing and my opposition to copyleft by unishark on Friday October 30, 2020 @06:06AM (#24940737)
In terms of physics, the energy you expend when doing that work is the scarce quantity. Time is just the bookkeeping system.

Good ideas are uncommon but I wouldn't call them scarce, since they can still break the rules of scarcity and multiply without bound (i.e. no true limit on the number of people having the exact same idea).

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Re:Software licensing and my opposition to copyleft by yiyus on Friday October 30, 2020 @02:56PM (#24945626)
You are taking an extremely theoretical point of view.

There is also no theoretical limit in the number of cars we can produce, for example. I would even say that it is easier to produce a new car than a great idea.

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