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Why no go the other direction and make it hard to identify a user, so people do not do it for fame. Open source worked before people were using it as self adver
by vladms 9mo ago
Why no go the other direction and make it hard to identify a user, so people do not do it for fame. Open source worked before people were using it as self advertisement.
Might even be good for Microsoft - they would be the only one knowing who is who.
- em-bee 9mo agothe berne convention copyright defines inalienable authors rights that can not be sold or taken away from the author. the author of any copyright works always has the right to identify themselves with the work, and therefore your suggestion is not legally possible.
- vladms 9mo agoI am not a lawyer, so can't propose the best way to implement this, but the Berne convention contains provisions for "anonymous and pseudonymous works", see Art 15.
- em-bee 9mo agobut that's only at the behest of the author. it can not be made a condition by the recipient, but that's what would be necessary if the goal is to prevent abuse of contributions for self promotion. the author can always deanonymize their contribution at any later point. right to self promotion is a core feature of copyright law that can't be circumvented.