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Information comes in different forms, and I am not quite sure why software is considered speech (and must, therefore, be free), but, say, schematics of an indus
by Koshkin 7y ago
Information comes in different forms, and I am not quite sure why software is considered speech (and must, therefore, be free), but, say, schematics of an industrial electronic device or the blueprint of an airplane is not.
- ralph84 7y agoThere are certainly some people who argue that any form of IP shouldn’t exist. Copyleft is a way to work within the existing IP system, but they would prefer IP be abolished. As for why free software took off while free $(other engineering discipline) hasn’t, I’d say it’s because “everyone” has a computer, but very few have an airplane factory.
- Koshkin 7y ago"everyone" has bookshelves; should books be free, then?
- ralph84 7y agoThere already are lots of books in the public domain or licensed under creative commons. But in general, yes, the same arguments some people use for removing IP restrictions on software apply equally to books. Or music. Or anything else subject to copyright.