On Mon, Dec 02, 2002 at 11:55:18PM -0600, Nigel Hamilton said: > In fact, employed properly copyright licences can help propagate > technology ... for example - the GPL itself. > > Why didn't he 'fess' up to this? ... I have no idea ... maybe it wouldn't > be controversial enough? ... but by the end I was starting to feel a bit > nauseous too.
Because, and sorry to drop into hippy, tree-hugging cr4p here, it's because he's working with the system to overcome the system. [0] Much as it would be nice to not assign copyright it would mean that corporations coudl then exploit the work that you were doing. Imagine it like money - money is an inescapable fact of life at the moment but $you think the world would be better if everything was free. Do you ... a) Give all your stuff away free and then watch as people take the apples you've given them and then sell them to super markets. or b) Make it so that you own all the money and *then* make everything free ... answer 'b' may seem crazy but it's far more likely to work than 'a' because, and lets face it, people are assho1es. Simon [0] Much like some martial arts like Aikido and Jujitsu where you you use the momentum of an opponent against them.
