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You seem to be leaning on the virtue of free market interaction, but copyright/patents/etc are severe market distortions that makes such reasoning specious. IM
by mindslight 4y ago
You seem to be leaning on the virtue of free market interaction, but copyright/patents/etc are severe market distortions that makes such reasoning specious.
IMO if a company wants to benefit from copyright regulations, then they should have to escrow the buildable source code (the original creative work), to be released into the public domain when the copyright term is up.
- paulcole 4y ago> IMO if a company wants to benefit from copyright regulations, then they should have to escrow the buildable source code (the original creative work), to be released into the public domain when the copyright term is up. That is definitely an opinion you can have. But it doesn't seem like there's any realistic chance of this happening in the United States.