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why is it a paradox? guarding their IP overseas has been the modus operandi of American software companies since their inception

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The paradox is that their IP was obtained by distillation of the collective IP of humanity.

I'm sure all those stackexchange experts will be getting their checks for helping launch countless software projects over the last 20 years any day now...

You're basically saying that since open source projects can be reused by others, the people making closed source projects shouldn't complain when the same thing happens to them.

Everyone posting on Stack Overflow knew it would be public and free. Book authors put an explicit copyright notice, which includes derivations of their work.

It’s not their IP, they never created data they were training on in the first place, at best they derived existing data without asking if they can commercialized it

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