@nixCraft@mastodon.social As an open source dev of 10 years, I've thought about this a lot. I think copyright was the wrong solution from the start. What should be protected isn't the final code of a project, it's the work that went into it - the human time (which I am told has inherent moral value). It's always harder to be the first to do something because you explore dead ends. SW dev isn't about writing code but making decisions and finding out what works and what doesn't. 1/n