Actual IP law and how it conducts itself in the real world has plenty of issues to be sorted out, but there are tons of potential "inefficiencies" in the real world that could be exploited and rectified across a vast array of things, but aren't, due to combinations of social politics, law, philosophy, etc preventing it. That some potential efficiency is on the table in theory, but can't be reaped due to those things, is nowhere remotely close to "mind boggling"
Re:60x speed-up of Linux “perf”
by pessimizer on Thursday September 09, 2021 @12:49PM
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It doesn't limit it any more than if it were proprietary and you couldn't afford it.
I'm not sure how you can rationally make an argument for a framework that literally limits the use of improved or more performant code/technology/understanding simply because it does not share a philosophical view of IP/ownership/sharing.
This is the core of the problem with IP in the real world as well, and I find it mind-boggling that we don't look at the SYSTEM and see it as problematic.