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lionkor11/04/20252 repliesview on HN

Do you dislike copyright also when it protects your intellectual property, and makes things like software licenses possible?


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bambax11/05/2025

Yes, I do. I think the world would be a better place if there were no Microsoft, Adobe or Oracle. We would still have OSes and databases, we would be fine.

immibis11/04/2025

If I couldn't use the AGPL to force Amazon to release Elasticsearch, but they couldn't use normal copyright to force me not to reverse engineer Alexa and Widevine, would it be that bad?

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