> I'd just like to see more work go towards figuring out how to fund developers whose projects aren't of strategic interest to proprietary software companies th

> I'd just like to see more work go towards figuring out how to fund developers whose projects aren't of strategic interest to proprietary software companies than articles that keep making the assumption that all important open source software is libraries or utility software that ultimately would line up nicely with corporate interests. To be clear, I do agree with that goal. I just tend to diverge with others on the means. That is, I don't agree with hacking the IP system to achieve that end. I'd rather see the IP system done away with entirely. (IP and software is near and dear to my heart, but IP itself is so much bigger than just software.)