The Post-Copyright Era of Software
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AI is fundamentally changing software economics by making reimplementation vastly cheaper than before. While copyright still exists, it's becoming less relevant as the main barrier to creating alternative software implementations. The real competitive moats are shifting to trust, governance, maintenance quality, and operational legitimacy rather than textual ownership of code.
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