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I've supported EFF as long as I can remember, but I don't think they will ever come out and say it—we need to #AbolishCopyright and #AbolishPatents. Reform is i
by breck 6y ago
I've supported EFF as long as I can remember, but I don't think they will ever come out and say it—we need to #AbolishCopyright and #AbolishPatents. Reform is impossible. The systems are fundamentally bad and unjust. Some people might say "but our founding fathers legalized it!", yes, but they also legalized human slavery and didn't allow women to vote. I don't think #ImaginaryPropertyLaws were nearly as big a problem as they are today. It's only thanks to the Internet and computing that the opportunity cost of #ImaginaryPropertyLaws has grown to catastrophic size.
EFF I think has a broader mandate and I can't blame them for not taking the correct position on this issue. It's a huge issue and they have a big portfolio already.
If a group of people at EFF splintered off to found a new non-profit dedicated solely to #AbolishingCopyright and #AbolishingPatents, I would support and donate to that.
- fsflover 6y agohttps://www.fsf.org/news/end-soft-patents https://www.fsf.org/news/end-soft-patents
- breck 6y agoYeah, and I think that's a step in the right direction, but not far enough. We need to #AbolishPatents, no qualifiers. Software patents are stupid too but the truly grotesque patents are in medicine. Nothing is more responsible for the opioid epidemic than the billions in incentives Purdue had to patent and then falsely market Oxycontin. Check out the docs from 1996, patents were the key to their business model. If they had no patents there would have been no incentive for them to get millions addicted to a harmful drug. Patents created monopoly profits and brought out the worst in human behavior.
- zoobab 6y agoGSK was the company buying the influence of Mr Cameron to remove the CJEU out of patent law in the UPC project, and software patents in particular. A person in the room said "the enemy of the software industry is now BigPharma"