Fascinating. Perhaps Stallman's greatest innovation is copyleft. The idea of required reciprocation seems to tie deeply into people's views. For the little OSS

Fascinating. Perhaps Stallman's greatest innovation is copyleft. The idea of required reciprocation seems to tie deeply into people's views. For the little OSS I have I picked it by default but would gladly use BSD or some safe PD license on the other hand. The idea of Pillaging the Commons is interesting. I wonder when the mainstream opinion started shifting. It wasn't quite sudden but it seems to me that even ten years ago the dominant Internet visible position was that much of copyright was bogus: information wants to be free / if a pirate copies your stuff, you still have it But now there's a stronger sense of "this information is ours". Perhaps that subculture moved somewhere and this one came here or perhaps I moved from where the former was to where the latter is. I find it an interesting sociological phenomenon.