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Wasting man-years on reimplementing software is not a large enough problem to decide that authors no longer have any rights with their product.
by reginaldjcooper 13y ago
Wasting man-years on reimplementing software is not a large enough problem to decide that authors no longer have any rights with their product.
- icebraining 13y agoAgreed, there are much better reasons for doing so.
- ouaibe 13y agoContrary to popular belief, copyright law doesn't exist to ascertain dominion from an author onto it's creation. It exists to regulate exchanges and distribution of such creation, giving a controlled and finite monopoly to the original author with a guarantee that said creation ends up in the public domain. GPL exists to bypass such monopoly and implement a form of public domain (copyleft) that is compatible with copyright law.
- serf 13y agobut it is a large enough problem. Wasting man years is precisely the problem. Our collective knowledge is boundless, but time is finite. See the problem here? Why would we want to waste the effort of future generations with the problems of yesterday? So that an individual can live more comfortably with exclusive privileges to something that benefits all of mankind? We shouldn't be working towards selfishness and arbitrary contractual law.
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- icebraining 13y agoWhy are you talking about infringing on the GPL? OP infringed on a "proprietary exfat driver, written by Samsung", not on GPL licensed code.
- bad_user 13y agoI'm sorry, unfortunately I haven't read the TFA before commenting.