I believe to protect the chain from unwanted copy cats stamping their name on Algorands code lines that we need to put into vote to have that information changed to protect the community from bad actors looking to siphon funds and users. We all love Algorand so lets procure the enviroment in our ecosystem and stop the free to use code in the text of the policy so that Algorand remains organic and push away cookie cutter copy paste scenarios.
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Absolutely.
How do we make this happen?
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John Woods gave his blessing on it said it would be good like Etherum
They should at least patent the consensus algorithm (pure proof of stake)
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I agree this the right thing to do.
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John is a smart man dont get me wrong but this isn’t Ethereum and we will NEVER be Ethereum and we dont have spider web partnerships locking up Algorand in smart contracts in big loads like Ethereum does and thats just facts. Algorand is a pristine ship sailing out in a sea with tons of broken ships and those broken ships have sworn allegiance to Ethereum like die hard degen status no matter how useless Ethereum is in its terrible structural weak written code people push the trash that it is even after a poor soul lost 90k on a fumbled transaction to coinbase and basically lost crap tons of 
money…im up for hearing more debates from this but so far none of them seem to have weight…
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@GhostOfMcAfee out of context but there was a similar discussion last week on X, looks like you’re not the only one with this opinion. I think it would be cool too
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Open-source is net positive for the ecosystem and society.
Open-source cuts both ways - you can gain from others and others can gain from you. I believe people are upset because they’re only seeing half of the equation, viewing someone else as benefiting from the hard-work of Algorand, and that is true (it was very expensive to create Algorand, and very cheap to copy it).
However, it’s not a zero sum game. The value that comes from fostering an open-source ecosystem is much more than the sum of its parts. You enable new discoveries and innovations, more information for developers and researchers to learn from, and ultimately safer and more robust code. You get a more diverse group of people working on the code, leading to a higher rate of breakthroughs. This is why you’ve seen open-source AI models rival private models.
Here is Zuck’s defense for open-sourcing Llama on the Meta earnings call
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