> Wouldn't life be better with a few simple business laws that everyone can understand and follow? Life would be better with a few simple laws that everyone co

> Wouldn't life be better with a few simple business laws that everyone can understand and follow? Life would be better with a few simple laws that everyone could understand and follow. On the one hand, some laws are complex because they deal with a complex reality. You want free speech, but you don't want libel, but you do want robust debate over potentially libelous issues, and you don't want copyright infringement, but you do want fair use . . . On the other hand, some laws are complex because the people writing them don't pay any penalty for their complexity. Nobody expects to understand laws, so nobody complains when they can't. And on the third hand, complexity isn't always that hard to boil down for people. I often encounter code with about 60 lines of legalese in the header. Blah blah proprietary software blah blah authorized personnel blah blah etc. One of my favorite encounters was with a piece of code that replaced that header with something reading, roughly, "Hey you! This code belongs to XXX Company. If you need to use it, you need their permission or you need to destroy it. . . blah blah blah . . . . Make sure anybody you show it to knows this stuff." I thought, awesome. Why don't my EULAs have a paragraph like that? Rule of law was a good idea. It's still a good idea. But next revolution, we need to implement a scheme incentivizing the creation of clear, simple, just laws. Might not always be possible to get all three, but I've got to believe we can get closer.