[kajumix]

The idea of "intellectual property" is anti-productive as well as immoral. Open source software is a very good evidence of the utilitarian benefits of doing away with software patents. And IP is immoral because it's impossible to grant and secure "intellectual property" rights without violating physical property rights. Please read Stephen Kinsella's "Against Intellectual Property" for a good treatment of both the utilitarian and the moral dimensions:

https://cdn.mises.org/15_2_1.pdf

[nness]

Open Source software is an awful example because by-and-large no one gets paid to do make it.

OSS doesn't exist to spite IP, it exists because of IP rights protect creators from others stealing their work.