Ideas Want to be Shared
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People have the same great idea at the same time. And increasingly more people are having the same idea at the same time. That is because the ideas arise from our common wealth.
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Ideas want to be shared. Sharing is baked into their nature. They don’t want to be owned, since ownership diminishes their usefulness. In the end, ideas will move in the direction of maximum sharing regardless of what the law says. And over time the law will codify what technology wants.