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If buying isn't owning, then piracy isn't stealing.
by lrvick 2y ago
If buying isn't owning, then piracy isn't stealing.
- palata 2y agoWhich is completely off topic. You can buy a paper book and own it, but it doesn't mean that you are allowed to make copies of it and sell them.
- lrvick 2y agoIf you cannot copy it, alter it, and share it as you see fit, you do not own it.
- palata 2y agoWell when you buy a book, you own the copy of the book. Not the author's life work.
- lrvick 2y agoAnd I disagree with this. IP law should not exist. If I buy a thing it should be mine to do with as I see fit. The more people that share and copy data the better.
- palata 2y agoYou're not an author, obviously. Do you put all - and I mean 100% - the code you write in the public domain?
- lrvick 2y agoI author a lot of technical documentation actually. Even so, yes. I make all my work public, 100%. I use public repositories as my backup for anything I create, regardless of stage of completion and so others can learn from or help improve my work as they see fit. I do not believe proprietary technology should exist and I put my code where my mouth is. Humans progress faster when we collaborate freely. Fork anything I do and make it better if you can.
- palata 2y agoSo here you say that you put all your work in the public domain, and in a comment above you say that you don't put it in the public domain because you fear a lawsuit? How the hell does that work?
- skeaker 2y agoI do, save for code I'm simply too lazy to publish...