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The point of copyleft is to protect users from being oppressed by programmers.
by ralmidani 12y ago
The point of copyleft is to protect users from being oppressed by programmers.
- _ak 12y agoCopyleft is a collectivist ideology, it only ever cares about users as an anonymous mass, but not about individuals with individual needs and constraints.
- dalke 12y agoCopyright is also a collectivist ideology. "To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts" is even more anonymous than "users".
- prodigal_erik 12y agoNo user ever needs to be unable to arrange for maintenance of the software they rely on. That only benefits some developers by holding their customers captive.