The understanding that science needs to be restored as an open and collaborative exercise has given birth to the commons movement. By a curious sleight of hand, capitalism sees the finite commons—the atmosphere and large water bodies such as lakes, rivers and oceans—as infinite, and demands the right to dump waste in these commons. Yet it regards knowledge, capable of being copied infinite number of times without loss, as finite and demands monopoly rights over it!
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I’ve always liked the FOSS approach to sharing. There was a window manager I wanted, but really wished it had a particular feature that had been rejected by the original developers. With copyright-restricted proprietary software, I’d be shit-outta-luck. But fortunately it had a FOSS license and released the source code. Someone had taken that code and added the feature I wanted in their own version of the software so people like me could use that one instead. Eventually after awhile, the feature even got merged into upstream, which probably wouldn’t have happened without other developers showing how things could be better. The ability to share and collaborate work is very valuable for humanity, even if you’re not the one doing the work yourself. I think proprietary software is a good day-to-day example of intellectual property getting in the way of innovation, especially with the recent actions of major tech companies designed to cripple and destroy the 3rd party ecosystems that have set up around their products.