Re: [Trisquel-users] What if we win?

[chris]

Most software is custom written so little is likely to be lost. Companies  
like ThinkPenguin would still have a vested interest in paying developers to  
write code. *We want to sell something still*. Without software our computers  
are of little to no value for the majority of consumers out there. The number  
of people with computers would dwindle down to the number in the pre-PC erra.  
Google still wants your eyeballs. There will still be a web browser. There is  
already a free OS. What exactly will be lost again? Some proprietary app that  
locks you into it for which eliminates the incentives for others to produce  
something better? I think we can do without those apps.

There is still incentive for the government, accountants, and others to  
invest in niche applications development. Copyright is merely enabling  
proprietary software development. Free software exists mainly through a loop  
hole in copyright.