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GPL and copyleft are a clever hack to weaponize Intellectual Slavery laws against themselves, but a much simpler and better solution is just to work through Con
by breck 7y ago
GPL and copyleft are a clever hack to weaponize Intellectual Slavery laws against themselves, but a much simpler and better solution is just to work through Congress to repeal Intellectual Slavery laws of copyright and patents.
- kube-system 7y agoIf copyright didn't exist, nobody could be required to share their changes to another person's work under schemes like GPL. Corporations would no longer be legally compelled to contribute to free software projects. Projects like Linux would likely be abandoned as large institutional users fork the projects and leave the original project to rot.
- kazinator 7y agoIf copyright didn't exist, they could only use physical tamper-resistance techniques to protect their work from reverse engineering and copying.
- kube-system 7y agoOr they could simply refuse to sell it to you or anyone else without signing an NDA.