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Re:60x speed-up of Linux “perf” by wizzwizz4 on Thursday September 09, 2021 @12:36PM (#28471587)
Copyright as it exists today does an awful lot of exploitation-enabling and innovation-stifling in itself. (And that's ignoring the rest of the IP suite.)
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Re:60x speed-up of Linux “perf” by junon on Thursday September 09, 2021 @12:42PM (#28471664)
This is like saying "cops today do a lot of nasty stuff, let's get rid of all cops". The result is pure, unmitigated anarchy, looting, murder, and lawlessness.

I don't find either to be useful lines of thinking.

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Re:60x speed-up of Linux “perf” by matheusmoreira on Friday September 10, 2021 @10:10AM (#28481811)
Not really. Things would be pretty simple. You see something? You can copy it. Not a single legalese document in sight.

Don't compare this stuff to police brutality, looting, murder. They're not even in the same realm. Intellectual property is just ideas and absurd notions of ownership. It's like trying to own numbers. The real brutality is sending people to jail over this.

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