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RE: Is Steemit.com protected as intellectual property?
The way open source code works, is if you made your code open, then you accept forks of this code as long as changes are given back under licence terms. Now, majority of people do not follow or have any way to enforce licensing. Add in decentralization, witness structure, much more rigid system as far as decentralization as bitcoin. And you end up with there is not a thing bitcoin, steemit or any other company can do or govt for that matter about this issue. Similar to how thepiratebay still operates. Actually forks are good for steemit inc because the majority of front end and other innovations are cross compatible unlike litecoin and the other coins without the same address structure.
I agree that front-ends are good if they are also running on the steem blockchain, but I fail to see how forking the steem blockchain and then copying steemit.com almost to the "T" and running it on their new forked blockchain would be good for steemit or steem in any way?!
Steem needs to adapt and innovate. The model innovate or die is a common theme i've seen in a decade of technology investment. Smoke does something that works, Steem can fork to this new code. it works in benefit of steem. a sister coin. Smoke.