[citation][nom]IndignantSkeptic[/nom]Ok, but coding in HTML5 basically makes it very easy for everyone to commit industrial espionage against you because they can easily see and steal/copy all of your exact source code. Correct? That's what I'm concerned about. Everyone stealing everyone else's intellectual property would be enormously beneficial to humanity in the short term but then horribly devastating to humanity in the long term because then nobody would want to pay to do research & development anymore if everyone else can just steal and use their findings for free because then the group that payed for the R&D would be putting themselves into millions or even billions of dollars of debt that they could never get out of.[/citation]
I can't tell if you're trolling me or not, so I'll just assume that you're not.
I don't agree that a company not making as much money as they would have liked is "horribly devastating to humanity", but we can agree to disagree there. Even if that were the case, having code that is freely available doesn't mean you can't make money. Google, Red Hat, Facebook, and many more seem to be doing an okay job. As a matter of fact, they wouldn't even exist without said code.
If I could give an analogy, it would be this. Imagine if addition we're considered intellectual property. Nobody would be able to use it without some form of payment. That would significantly slow down progress. It seems obsurd for that to ever happen though, right. Why is that? Because anyone can do it so easily and it's so trivial. Much of today's code is in the same situation, just in terms of computing.
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