There are 2 groups of businesses: those like in this Wordpress battle that are fighting over copyrights, patents, and trademarks & those that have realized these things are retarded and make them innovate at <1% the speed of those who embrace the public domain.
Empirically we have been seeing this for a while (look at the dominance of open source programming languages, for example. Even Microsoft open sourced C# b/c they saw it was dead otherwise), but now we have a simple undeniable formula which explains this which is roughly E = T/A! [0]
You can keep your head in the sand and pretend that things aren't going to change, but the bottom line is if you stick to (c) and patents you retard your own development and will be driven to extinction by your competitors.
Empirically we have been seeing this for a while (look at the dominance of open source programming languages, for example. Even Microsoft open sourced C# b/c they saw it was dead otherwise), but now we have a simple undeniable formula which explains this which is roughly E = T/A! [0]
You can keep your head in the sand and pretend that things aren't going to change, but the bottom line is if you stick to (c) and patents you retard your own development and will be driven to extinction by your competitors.
[0] https://breckyunits.com/eta.html