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Not unreasonable? It forces people to engage in commerce whether they want to or not, and "but we want it!" doesn't seem like the kind of compelling public inte
by therealcamino 5y ago
Not unreasonable? It forces people to engage in commerce whether they want to or not, and "but we want it!" doesn't seem like the kind of compelling public interest that could justify that. Beyond that, it's trivially easy to work around (ok, now my software costs $10M a copy.)
- brokenmachine 5y agoI think of society as in the best case providing good for the public, not simply as a vehicle for companies to extract money from people. If a company creates something, that does not happen in a vacuum, it requires the support of a whole society of people to happen. The value created should ideally be for the whole society to use. If a company can't even be bothered to sell it, or goes out of business, then that work that the whole of society did, was wasted. The historical record, which belongs to everyone, becomes incomplete. I don't think that's right and in my opinion they should then forgo their claim to it. Our historical record should not be at the whim of bean counters.