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Sounds reasonable. BTW, after a lifetime of being a Democrat, I registered as a Libertarian last year. Just my opinion, but the USA would be so much better off
by mark_l_watson 5y ago
Sounds reasonable. BTW, after a lifetime of being a Democrat, I registered as a Libertarian last year. Just my opinion, but the USA would be so much better off with 4 or 5 active political parties. Democrat and Republican parties both serve the same two constituencies: wealthy people and large corporations.
I have 55 US patents and I have written 20 books, so you would think that I would support IP laws, but in general I don't. I do like Creative Commons licenses and for software GPL/AGPL, favoring them slightly over MIT and Apache (which I also use).
Even with the obvious high level of corruption in the USA, I am hopeful that we can have a fair society with equal opportunity for all young people, peace, high productivity, and social justice. It is up to us as individuals on how we want to contribute to that effort.
- Dracophoenix 5y agoWhen your say you don't like IP Laws, do you mean you don't like IP at all, or just the way it's currently implemented?
- mark_l_watson 5y agoI don't like how it is implemented. For example, copyrights would be fine with me if they were for short duration. Patents serve some purpose, but again, fewer patents and shorter terms would be better in my opinion.