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The point is if you stop giving proper credit, people stop publicly publishing.

Would you keep publishing articles if five people immediately stole the content and put it up on their site, claiming ownership of your research? Doubtful.

>>aantix+(OP)
Why do you think this? The entirety of Wikipedia is invisibly credited unless you go into the edit history. Most open source projects have pseudonymous contributors. People have written and will continue to write with or without credit.

Credit in academia is more the exception to the rule, and it's that cutthroat industry that needs a better, more cooperative system.