I'm a hardcore capitalist but I think all software should be free as in freedom. Am I a hypocrite?
I'm a hardcore capitalist but I think all software should be free as in freedom. Am I a hypocrite?
Andrew Johnson
Evan Williams
yea
Bentley Gray
No. Intellectual property is not property. Copyright and patents are government-mandated monopolies and do not exist without them.
Wyatt Martin
Copyright and patent law create artificial rights invented by the state.
They are different to trade secrets and trademark laws which are designed to protect natural rights.
Tyler Anderson
>Am I a hypocrite?
I don't necessarily thinks so.
>I think all software should be free as in freedom
What about other information? Books, movies, music? Should they also be free?
Luke Reyes
Could you give TL;DR why are these different?
Andrew Mitchell
Books, movies, and music are already free as in freedom. As long as OP means the ability to disassemble and modify the item once it's sold to you.
A commons, on the other hand, where there is a common source freely available, has always been around and they're usually funded by mutual interests or donations
Jaxson Reyes
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Elijah Ross
Is renting artificially created by government?
Liam Roberts
not him, but:
Copyright is the ability for artists to sue another person for copying their work without paying for it, patents are government-given papers that say you have a copyright for this invention. You can only get a patent for something never before patented. It's there "to promote the progress of sciences and the useful arts". Otherwise, there would be little motivation for an inventor or artist to share the work for the good of the nation.
trade secrets are usually processes that can't be protected by law and companies like to keep them to have an edge against other companies. Trademark laws are to distinguish one company from another so the person who buys it can know where it came from. You can't copy another persons trademark because that would defeat the purpose