Sometimes, the same story gets repeated after a small interval of time, say 2 weeks. Whoever are in charge of decdiging what gets posted might not have the time to see all the articles on/., but I do.
So can the moderators also moderate the story posted. For a story, the only moderation would be: "it was already posted" or something to that effect.
With enough people watching everyone else's back, well... you get to see a lot of backs.
It is not perfect, but it is an attempt to protect the motivation to invent.
I thought the best motivation was capitalism. The only think IP protects is theft of design. In the case of hardware goods. It is kind of easy to copy a design (a bottle of Coke for example).
In the case of software, to copy the design is hard, unless you find that writing 1,000,000+ lines of code is easy. So for that case, IP actually slows down invention, since it creates hurdles to improve on designs.
In the hardware case, you can look at the bottle of Coke and improve on that design without violating the IP. Can you do the same with software ?
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Sometimes, the same story gets repeated after a small interval of time, say 2 weeks. Whoever are in charge of decdiging what gets posted might not have the time to see all the articles on /., but I do.
So can the moderators also moderate the story posted. For a story, the only moderation would be: "it was already posted" or something to that effect.
With enough people watching everyone else's back, well... you get to see a lot of backs.
It is not perfect, but it is an attempt to protect the motivation to invent.
I thought the best motivation was capitalism. The only think IP protects is theft of design. In the case of hardware goods. It is kind of easy to copy a design (a bottle of Coke for example).
In the case of software, to copy the design is hard, unless you find that writing 1,000,000+ lines of code is easy. So for that case, IP actually slows down invention, since it creates hurdles to improve on designs.
In the hardware case, you can look at the bottle of Coke and improve on that design without violating the IP. Can you do the same with software ?