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> What Microsoft does is take your original work, create derivative works and sell them for profit. Unless it's under creative commons zero or public domain it
by visarga 4y ago
> What Microsoft does is take your original work, create derivative works and sell them for profit. Unless it's under creative commons zero or public domain it shouldn't be legal...
Why should it not be legal? Doesn't that make copyright equally powerful with patents? Copyright should restrict only replication of expression not replication of ideas.
- YoshiRulz 4y ago"Microsoft is circumventing the intent of copyright law" and "Copyright law should be changed or repealed" can both be true.
- throwaway290 4y agoIn this case we are talking about replication and manipulation of expression (for profit). Software doesn't understand ideas.