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Why? Should not content creators make a fair profit on their content? This includes books and movies. If you read Stallman's early writings on the matter his

by ms4720 7y ago

Why? Should not content creators make a fair profit on their content? This includes books and movies. If you read Stallman's early writings on the matter his goal was to have software development funded and directed by the government, so no linux or bsds for example.

matheusmoreira 7y ago
Creators need to figure out how to get paid before their works are created. Perhaps patronage via services like Patreon is the way to go. If we keep relying on copyright, we'll eventually lose everything that makes computers great. Copyright infringement is trivial because we own our machines and have full control over the software that runs on them. Governments and the copyright industry are growing increasingly hostile to the idea that citizens should be able to run whatever software they want. Therefore, maintaining the illusion that information is scarce is fundamentally incompatible with the freedoms envisioned by Stallman's licenses, especially the latest versions. This API copyright issue also threatens competing free software implementations of proprietary APIs. Projects like Wine should be directly affected by the court's decision.
Mikhail_Edoshin 7y ago
Maybe copyright shouldn't be exclusive but more like an offer open to everyone with monetary terms on which it would also be taxed?
genidoi 7y ago
This is specific to software development, where every incremental change to the work is by definition modular. Unlike artwork or music where no individual brush strokes or chords could feasibly exist in a vacuum. Look, should a CSS snippet copywriteable? What about a complex SQL query? Imo, no singular LOC is unique in the way that a newly developed drug is unique or a song is unique. If devs can agree on that, why should that extend to an arbitrarily long combination of LOCs? Even if it's somehow copyrightable, why should the rights of that LOC extend to the person claiming theirs has been breached? It's a bold claim to say that you are the first dev in the world to have ever created a particular piece of functionality. Code should be treated like trade secrets - the protection of the creator is in the meticulous seperation of end product from recipe. SaaSs already do this, the entire front end is publicly visible code, which line-for-line, rarely accounts for more than a small % of the backend logic.

by ms4720 7y ago

matheusmoreira 7y ago

Creators need to figure out how to get paid before their works are created. Perhaps patronage via services like Patreon is the way to go. If we keep relying on copyright, we'll eventually lose everything that makes computers great. Copyright infringement is trivial because we own our machines and have full control over the software that runs on them. Governments and the copyright industry are growing increasingly hostile to the idea that citizens should be able to run whatever software they want. Therefore, maintaining the illusion that information is scarce is fundamentally incompatible with the freedoms envisioned by Stallman's licenses, especially the latest versions. This API copyright issue also threatens competing free software implementations of proprietary APIs. Projects like Wine should be directly affected by the court's decision.

Mikhail_Edoshin 7y ago

Maybe copyright shouldn't be exclusive but more like an offer open to everyone with monetary terms on which it would also be taxed?

genidoi 7y ago

This is specific to software development, where every incremental change to the work is by definition modular. Unlike artwork or music where no individual brush strokes or chords could feasibly exist in a vacuum. Look, should a CSS snippet copywriteable? What about a complex SQL query? Imo, no singular LOC is unique in the way that a newly developed drug is unique or a song is unique. If devs can agree on that, why should that extend to an arbitrarily long combination of LOCs? Even if it's somehow copyrightable, why should the rights of that LOC extend to the person claiming theirs has been breached? It's a bold claim to say that you are the first dev in the world to have ever created a particular piece of functionality. Code should be treated like trade secrets - the protection of the creator is in the meticulous seperation of end product from recipe. SaaSs already do this, the entire front end is publicly visible code, which line-for-line, rarely accounts for more than a small % of the backend logic.