Of Course, Jack Dorsey Is (Mostly) Just Looking To Be... Provocative. To Stir The Pot. But Too Many Morons Reside On X-itter Now... They Think He's Serious.

Intellectual exercises such as these, based on posers like this. . . are useful to challenge outmoded ideas -- if nothing else. The proponent rarely seriously believes the proposition will be adopted, without vast modifications. And true, patent trolls are a problem -- as is the evergreening of pharma patents. But it is all a lil' rich, to hear Jack -- sitting on tens of billions of dollars, from his own IP being out-licensed, to only now abolish the system. . . solely because it is getting in the way of his stealing other people's ideas. . . to make ever more. . . billions.

How unfair it must be -- how put upon, he must feel -- to have to pay other smart people for ideas he wants to just slap on his own lunchbox, and sell it on, himself. Geez!

Here's just a bit of the largely inspid discussion that ensued, when Elon Musk chimed in, in support of Dorsey:

. . .Jack Dorsey, co-founder of Twitter (now X) and Square (now Block), sparked a weekend’s worth of debate around intellectual property, patents, and copyright, with a characteristically terse post declaring, “delete all IP law.”

X’s current owner Elon Musk quickly replied, “I agree.”

It’s not clear what exactly brought these comments on, but they come at a time when AI companies including OpenAI (which Musk co-founded, competes with, and is challenging in court) are facing numerous lawsuits alleging that they’ve violated copyright to train their models.

Indeed, tech evangelist and investor Chris Messina alluded to this while writing that Dorsey “has a point,” because, “Automated IP fines/3-strike rules for AI infringement may become the substitute for putting poor people in jail for cannabis possession. . . .”

That's just. . . stupid. And these bros think that the only IP that matters is in software and systems. They utterly miss that the drugs that keep them, and their parents. . . alive. . . cost tens of billions to develop -- and no one will do that work, with the urgency we now need, and see -- at least -- without a solid profit incentive. And without IP law, there could be no real promise of. . . profits.

Here endeth the lesson, for Jack -- and Elmo. Cheers!

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