Will Hill wrote:
I'd rather deliver a knock out blow to them by removing copyright protection
for non free software.
For those who are advocating this, can I assume that you realize this
would require a change to the law, unless authors explicitly release
their software to the "public domain?" (Works are automatically
copyrighted by their author, unless you go to lengths to avoid it.) I
expect the likelihood of such a legal change is just about nil.
And... if you DO release code to the public domain, that leaves others
free to make a few modifications, and/or bundle that code with other
code, and copyright the whole mess.
Copyleft, among other things, is a way to prevent that kind of abuse.
Miles Fidelman
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In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice.
In practice, there is. .... Yogi Berra
