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wow, that response was needlessly cruel... I assume you're just having a bad day, so I hope you feel better soon mate. Good luck!

breck 5y ago
Licenses are for losers. Remember that kids. If you want to do big things in this world, run with the SciHubs and the PirateBays and the PublicDomainers. Flip the bird at the academics publishing junk behind paywalls crowing about licenses. The ones who matter set their ideas free. Been that way for thousands of years. (GPL was an amazing hack, but the next step is to finish the job, abolish IS laws, and bury for good the idea of needing a license to use your mind)
- nine_k 5y ago
  If all licenses are for losers, do you suppose GPL to be also for losers?
  - jchw 5y ago
    My reading of their PoV is more one against IP itself as a concept, and by proxy, licensing software as a concept. In that case, GPL is interesting since the stated goal of copyleft is to basically use the copyright and IP law system against itself. While I don’t personally subscribe to IP anarchy, and I think that it is not being conveyed with an ideal level of tact, I do think it makes mostly logical sense. Deep down, from a purely ideological standpoint, most computer science minded people can probably understand IP anarchy. It’s sort of the other side of the “what color are your bits?” post. I still think the world is better off with some forms of IP, even if we’re all well-aware that the copyright and patent laws have been perverted in most places.
  - breck 5y ago
    Yes, IF thought of as a long term solution, and not a stop gap.
- smokey_circles 5y ago
  I suspect we've forgotten what the original reason for intellectual property laws were and that was rampant theft. "But you can't steal an idea" The world was built by good ideas and bad implementation, so I guess we are gonna disagree here.

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wow, that response was needlessly cruel... I assume you're just having a bad day, so I hope you feel better soon mate. Good luck!

by grayhatter 5y ago

breck 5y ago
Licenses are for losers. Remember that kids. If you want to do big things in this world, run with the SciHubs and the PirateBays and the PublicDomainers. Flip the bird at the academics publishing junk behind paywalls crowing about licenses. The ones who matter set their ideas free. Been that way for thousands of years. (GPL was an amazing hack, but the next step is to finish the job, abolish IS laws, and bury for good the idea of needing a license to use your mind)
- nine_k 5y ago
  If all licenses are for losers, do you suppose GPL to be also for losers?
  - jchw 5y ago
    My reading of their PoV is more one against IP itself as a concept, and by proxy, licensing software as a concept. In that case, GPL is interesting since the stated goal of copyleft is to basically use the copyright and IP law system against itself. While I don’t personally subscribe to IP anarchy, and I think that it is not being conveyed with an ideal level of tact, I do think it makes mostly logical sense. Deep down, from a purely ideological standpoint, most computer science minded people can probably understand IP anarchy. It’s sort of the other side of the “what color are your bits?” post. I still think the world is better off with some forms of IP, even if we’re all well-aware that the copyright and patent laws have been perverted in most places.
  - breck 5y ago
    Yes, IF thought of as a long term solution, and not a stop gap.
- smokey_circles 5y ago
  I suspect we've forgotten what the original reason for intellectual property laws were and that was rampant theft. "But you can't steal an idea" The world was built by good ideas and bad implementation, so I guess we are gonna disagree here.