Stefan Meretz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 2008-02-09 10:03, Reinhard Mueller wrote: > > Am Samstag, den 09.02.2008, 12:53 +1100 schrieb Ben Finney: > > > In other words, if copyright truly did not exist, and everyone had > > > the same freedoms (and more) in every work, not just those that > > > have such freedoms explicitly granted by the GPL, then there would > > > no longer need to be a GPL. > > > > I don't think so. Without copyright, everybody still had the chance > > to hide the source and only publish the binaries. Everybody still had > > the chance to write software that only works on specific hardware, to > > write software that checks BIOS serial numbers, or whatever. > > Without copyright so called piracy would be legal and thus proprietary > software looses its commodity character, because it would no longer be > scarce. Then, all proprietary software would be out-cooperated by free > software, which bases on non-scarcity, e.g. abundance. > > But this scenario also develops with copyright, it only takes a longer > time to out-cooperate proprietary software.
Sorry for overlooking your post. What do you mean by out-cooperate? Regards Matthias-Christian _______________________________________________ Discussion mailing list [email protected] https://mail.fsfeurope.org/mailman/listinfo/discussion
