I'm afraid you're mistaken. Talk to anyone in legal at Red Hat or Novell, or Canonical, they will tell you how much they rely on state-sponsored monopoly schemes such as copyright, patents, trademarks, and trade secrets.
I attended the third international GPLv3 draft conference (http://fsfe.org/projects/gplv3/europe-gplv3-conference.en.html) and taped all the sessions, and I can assure you that the basis of the license is in copyright law. Watch the Eben Moglen vid if you have the time. On Fri, Oct 9, 2009 at 12:27 PM, David Tomlinson <[email protected]> wrote: > Sean DALY wrote: >> >> So if I understand you, let's abolish copyright, and that way >> Microsoft, Adobe et.al. can just chuck their bloated old code and >> incorporate formerly free software into their binaries? And charge an >> arm and a leg for it as well. >> > Read Hat, SUSE etc all manage without a state sponsored monopoly, > Microsoft can do so too. > >> No thanks. I prefer the GPL, which derives its power from copyright >> law - the concept that creators decide how their work may be used. >> >> I support "intellectual property" law reform, but this is really >> throwing out the baby with the bathwater. > > The GPL only needs copyright to defend against copyright, v3 does go > further, the concept is so powerful, it is widely abused (not in the GPL > v2). > > > >> >> P.S. I'm a parent, and I am glad copyright law provides me with some >> recourse should my teenager be dumb enough to upload a bad photo to a >> public internet site. I'm afraid though that next, you're going to >> tell me that children should be free of parental control and report >> their parents to the NKVD if they aren't permitted to use RapidShare >> or MEGAUPLOAD >> >> > You think copyright is going to help, as we all laugh at your image. > Who said anything about parental control. > - > Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk discussion group. To unsubscribe, please > visit http://backstage.bbc.co.uk/archives/2005/01/mailing_list.html. > Unofficial list archive: > http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ > - Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk discussion group. To unsubscribe, please visit http://backstage.bbc.co.uk/archives/2005/01/mailing_list.html. Unofficial list archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/
