Lol you telling this to open source devs is the epitome of irony 😂

I invite everyone and anyone to copy every bit of every program that I've ever written, that is copy-able. if there exists something that I didn't want you to copy and yet you can still do it. It's on me.

We’re all copying Twitter. I spent a year designing things hoping people copy them 🤣

I will politely disagree. I expect to be able to sell my novel and therefore, the book it is made into. No one else can write what I write. If people find value in that, then I will be able to make some money from that. If not, then so be it. The other thing is that patenting stuff is a monopoly, and therefore expensive. It's not worth it for most smaller companies or single entrepreneur endeavors. It's better to put time and money into iterating a product than worrying about China stealing it and selling it for cheap if you can have the next version ready to go when that happens. You can't stop China, but you can certainly out-create them

That's not what we're talking about though. Open source devs have to make ends meal, they don't do it by giving own made stuff away to the void, do they? V4V.

I think you missed the point. You write a book and want to be valued. Therefore you want to get back resources invested. By this definition you shouldn't, can't, and it's your problem. Yay artists of any kind. Or do you want to sell copies of your book? Then we're on the same page. People create for living, it's not ok to take their author rights by half-baked definition of "copying isn't stealing." It doesn't hurt for a 70x copied meme, but for a book carefully written over a year? Yikes.

We are all a product of our past experiences. Therefore, every idea is copyright infringement. Imagine Johannes Lippius was able to copywrite musical chords in 1612.