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Anyone who believes in a free and open society should do away with all copyrights and patents. Anyone who thinks that licensing will have an effect on what is

• dahart 5y ago
  > Anyone who believes in a free and open society should do away with all copyrights and patents. Free and open sound good to me! What do they mean exactly? I guess it’s a non-debatable fact that copyrights and patents are abused by many big companies and patent trolls, but doing away with the system does seem extreme, it has also protected deserving individuals on occasion, no? You are saying that it should always be legal to copy someone else’s code / inventions without giving them any credit or compensation? > Anyone who thinks that licensing will have an effect on what is happening in reality is severely misguided. I’m not sure I understand what you mean; lots of licensing activity does have a measurable effect on reality. This article is only a small example, but people get sued all the time over taking code and using it without licensing it.