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• ghaff 4y ago
  >Free Software people would build a statue to Microsoft if they started campaigning for an end to software copyrights. Some might. But FOSS licenses can exist because of copyright. So if, hypothetically, there weren't software copyrights, anyone could take any code and monetize it however they wanted with no restrictions. That might or might not be a big deal--the general trend has been towards more permissive licenses anyway.
• tmtvl 4y ago
  I consider myself to be kind of a Free Software person and I wouldn't cheer for the end to software copyright, I worry that the abolition would harm the cause I care for, which is preserving the freedoms of users. Getting rid of copyright wouldn't stop bad actors from trying to circumvent their users' rights, and with no recourse to copyleft it would become harder to fight that.