Oh, that's been done plenty. They don't care. Now what...escalate?
That's been done, too. Hell, that was probably Trump's biggest campaign promise. Obviously it didn't work.
So how far should we keep escalating? Do we declare war over intellectual property? Fuck that. It's time to wake up.
We are the ones being called out on our bullshit. China called our bluff, and we are left holding the cards. There is no sense in waiting around: we should fold ASAP.
I refuse that and actually would go to war over it.
Because without that, you just reward war-like tactics in business, thievery, deception, etc, until nobody wants to create ideas anymore, and thinkers are selected out of the gene pool until we're a hive of drones sucking the toes of our queen bee influencers.
Where can I see the names of the people who designed my phone? Is it printed on the box? Or those who wrote a service I use like GitHub?
Inventors have been dispossessed of their authorship for the last hundred years.
> thinkers are selected out of the gene pool
Right now having contributed to openbsd makes a guy the sexiest dude in every party, right?
Honorable, idealistic, yeah. I deeply value the people that work on OpenBSD. I wish they had fewer struggles in life. They should start by valuing their time and effort more, like lawyers, who charge 10s of thousands of dollars to read PDFs.
It is absolutely morally debased and corrupt to advocate violence to resolve intellectual pursuits. I want to exist in a society that shares ideas since they are not scarce and we can argue over the actually scarce things we care about.
It's just personal preference, like all politics. We create the world we want to live in. Yes, I once idealized your society, but after years in the corporate world I learned there will always be plenty of snakes out there. I'd prefer not structuring society in a way that rewards them even more.