.. yeah .. “IP lawfare” .. Ideas are NOT own-able as property, only the implementation of an idea .. .. but legions of lawyers have worked hard over decades to subvert this basic tenet with patent ring-fencing strategies that ultimately cost huge amounts of $ to establish, to defend, and to challenge. This creates a huge legal moat for incumbents to prevent innovators and challengers entering their arena Open source, or GFY

Methods of implementation are still only knowledge and therefore can only ever be discovered, not created. I would love to peek into a hypothetical testnet world where only the act of implementing knowledge was the thing that could earn you money, and never the possession and hoarding of information itself.

That’s the world of Free and Open Source Software 🤝

Exactly, and I'm all for it. That's the only bastion we have, yet it still has to compete in a world of knowledge purchase-and-hoarding with twisted IP incentives and talent sniping. Imagine the open source bloom if noone could own the method and it wasn't just excersised in software development but industry, medicine and the teaching knowledge itself. FOSS >> FOSK