• ElHexo [comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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    1 year ago

    If it wasn’t, no one would ever develop any kind of software or scientific research

    The overwhelming majority of software developers and researchers are paid a salary and don’t get own the IP of their inventions.

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      1 year ago

      Who said anything about who owns the IP? Software developers get paid because people pay for their software. If no one paid for it, it would never be made. Why is this so hard to understand?