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I want to work for a world with free flow of information, where individuals should not be responsible alone for the mistakes of a multi-billions organization. If any company can do it better than Apple somewhere in the world, then let them build on what Apple developed. The culture of open source should spread at all levels of research & engineering, in all fields.

Cost of information transmission and movements of people will continue to decrease.

We should respect individuals rights about privacy, but disregard organization level's attempt at secrecy, and aim for transparent organizations all around the world. Such big organization should not be able to attack individuals without anyone questioning the processes going on inside of it.

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In that world neither Apple nor Google would have ever invested even a cent in self-driving technology and almost all major medical advancements would not have come to pass. You don’t invest billions of dollars and have thousands of people working on a project for decades if there is no way of making money on that investment or even recuperating it.

Surely you own a multi-million company so you know what you are talking about.

Money isn't everything, especially when you have plenty of it

> Money isn't everything, especially when you have plenty of it

The problem is that it sort of is, at least in a publicly traded company. Shareholders demand growth, and growth demands innovation.

Well that’s nice to hear, so I take it that you are in on investing a million in my company who’s making useful software for scientists with no monetsation strategy? No, there is absolutely no chance of you making any money on it. No, we don’t intend on retaining any rights to the software, we are literally just wasting money. Your money.

What you say? You don’t have the cash on hand? Well just take a loan, money isn’t everything right?

If I’m being to obtouse here. The point is that money is everything when you start a company, you need to pay electricity bills and people need to eat. And the money invested in companies is only given contingent on an assumption that it can be made back.

Apple may have started in a garage, but if there wasn’t money in it, then it would have stayed in the garage.

I dont want my country’s IP obtained by totalitarian governments with awful human rights track records.

Then work harder and faster than the people of that "totalitarian" country.

I don't want to rise a child who will waste his/her time with artificial problems created by fake country's level competition. We don't live in the 70s anymore.

Stop putting countries and governments before common-sense and people happiness. A copy-paste of 1Go file is so easy to do, it's ridiculous. IPs and patents were not created for the happiness of the majority.

Maybe that engineer is simply passionated about knowledge and building autonomous cars, and he would like to make it happen wherever he goes. Why stop him? If Apple really wanted to protect that IP, then just publish a patent about it?

Instead of using the existing organizational systems, aka Patents (patents are already bad enough), they attack an individual.

> Then work harder and faster than the people of that "totalitarian" country.

I really hope it's some very well hidden sarcasm.

> I don't want to rise a child who will waste his/her time with artificial problems created by fake country's level competition. We don't live in the 70s anymore.

Playing citizen of Earth is fun and well until you find yourself or your family in said totalitarian country.

> I really hope it's some very well hidden sarcasm

It is.

> Playing citizen of Earth is fun and well until you find yourself or your family in said totalitarian country

No one will ever become a citizen of earth if no one tries. You can learn from playing.

I prefer to work with an engineer who worked for both Apple and a Chinese company than a fanatic nationalist engineer from any of the 2 sides, regardless of government type.

Did you ever worked for a Chinese company? That engineer worked for both, he works towards a borderless world.

Edit : oh, and he is transparent about it. That engineer has more integrity than Apple.

Edit 2 : if I were able to give an anonymous dollar to that engineer in order to help him, I would do it.

Uh, he didn't release the IP publicly. He was going to take it and give it to another company that presumably is not transparent in the slightest. Doesn't sound like striving for World Peace (c) to me.

Public knowledge is of course the best, but if you can't have that, at least two actors with the same knowledge is better than only one monopolizing it.

I strongly believe the intent was not to move towards a free and open world, based on the evidence provided. It was to move wealth from one company to another, or worse, from one country to another.

Nice save there with "totalitarian", otherwise there'd be no difference!

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