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You're confusing Copyright (implementation) with Patent (idea).

We don't like gatekeeping ideas because many people have the same ideas.

I don't think anyone is gatekeepign ideas. There's plenty of them, they're a dime a dozen.

Implementation: yes, that should be protected. People seem to not like that here, though.

Patents are gatekeeping ideas. Two people come up with the same idea independently but one gets a patent and keeps the other from using their own idea.

Copyright is protecting from copy pasting the implementation of the idea.

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