3 ms·

Any law in the end requires a violent threat. This suggestion implies that someone who does not publish their source code should, after som ignored formal lette

Any law in the end requires a violent threat. This suggestion implies that someone who does not publish their source code should, after som ignored formal letters, get armed men sent to their office to kidnap whoever is responsible. All nice sounding laws, such as gov funded welfare, gov funded hospitals, gov funded schools, and the endless regulations, implicitly carry a threat of violence, and when judging the ethics of a carrying a law out, that violent threat must be included. Government is firstly about guns.

zymhan 6y ago
Quite the slippery slope fallacy. You're also conflating civil and criminal law. Copyright is civil law. The government doesn't send the FBI in to ensure some publisher respects that a book's copyright has lapsed.
- jeofken 6y ago
  Of course there is a violent threat behind copyright law as well - enforcing the right to ownership or the right to copy. Why else do you think anyone complies with laws, or cares what government decides? Government is about violent force