> The median dev thinks Star Wars and Daft Punk are a public commons. The great cultural project of developers has been opposing any protection that might inconvenience a monetizable media-sharing site. When they fail at policy, they route around it with coercion. They stand up global-scale piracy networks and sneer at anybody who so much as tries to preserve a new-release window for a TV show.
This is pretty disingenuous and mean-spirited. He's using SV startup types to smear all developers, including the typical, humble, un- or undercompensated FOSS dev who absolutely respects intellectual property, and quite reasonably, expects their own IP to be respected as well. But because Sam Altman types follow the "It's Better to Beg for Forgiveness than to Ask for Permission" rule, altruistic, non-sociopathic developers have no right to complain?
