In the history of humanity, intellectual property is a relatively recent phenomenon.
A lot of technology and culture was built without such “protection”.
I sometimes wonder how recent history would have played out without copyrights and patents.
A lot of technology and culture was built without such “protection”.
I sometimes wonder how recent history would have played out without copyrights and patents.
Case in point: look how far LLM's have come since llama hit the public sphere vs. how far organisations like google managed to get, with more time and more resources at their disposal.
Now that we're all equals, the rich and powerful don't have to do any such things anymore.