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I just hope that the notion and traditional cultural practice of "this idea is mine, therefore it cannot be yours" dies soon

once it does we can have a new digital renaissance

but if people see the phrase "original copy" and don't see an oxymoron, i have no hope

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This idea could be useful to prove, for example, illegal use of a OSS-licensed library in a closed-source software.

Also, I can understand Apple's mindset on this matter: you'd be rather disgusted if someone took the code you wrote and claimed to have written it all by themselves. It's not the idea that was (trying to be) protected here, just the work behind the code.

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