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If you cannot copy it, alter it, and share it as you see fit, you do not own it.
by lrvick 2y ago
If 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...