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		olliej on Sept 9, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: 60x speed-up of Linux “perf” In the absence of copyright things like the GPL would have no power - a company could take your work and bundle it into their product and never contribute anything back ever.

pabs3 on Sept 10, 2021 | [–]

And then you could copy what they produced the result without paying them, I expect the pirate sites would still exist without copyright.

matheusmoreira on Sept 10, 2021 | [–]

In the abscence of copyright, copying some company's work would not be a crime either.

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