I see the generosity of people as being sufficient to create a pool of
shared resources that will allow us to improve the human condition.
Everyone contributes what they want, when they want to.
On the other hand, you see the generosity of people as being
insufficient to prevent the collapse of society. With out a law
requiring them to turn over their work to society, the human condition
would worsen.
Not at all. I want the natural order to rule, where anyone is free to
take their inspiration from any source, and create works to enrich
mankind. I'm not imposing any laws- this is the way things work by
default. You're the one who wants the government to impose draconian
laws (called copyright) to allow you to prohibit people from building
off of your works, in order to insure your own profit. There is only
one word for this: selfishness.
If we didn't have copyright to allow the author to control how people
use their work, then in our business (F/OSS), the M$'s of the world (and
their not the ONLY ones) would sit back, take the best ideas, copy them
verbatim into their own work, without even giving due credit, and sell
it (which, in of itself isn't a crime) without letting others learn from
them, just like they learned from you.
I'd much rather have them reigned in than allow a free for all.
As I've said, most F/OSS developers have a "day-job" that they can fall
back to to afford to give their "art" away. But the majority of artists
have to sell it, and need a marketplace in which to sell into. Which
there wouldn't be without copyright protections stopping 1 person buying
it, and then wholesale copying and selling take place.
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