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You Can Oppose Copyright and Support Open Source

Posted by kdawson on from the point-counterpoint dept.

kfogel writes "I'm submitting 'Supporting Open Source While Opposing Copyright' as a response to Greg Bulmash's piece from yesterday. I think there were a number of flaws and mistaken assumptions in Bulmash's reasoning, and I've tried to address them in this rebuttal, which has undergone review from some colleagues in the copyright-reform community."

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  1. Re:Not all open-source is the same by wall0159 · · Score: 3, Informative

    Nonsense. You've just made the exact point that the article is refuting. In fact, you've made it completely without evidence. This is 'Insightful' how?

    If you oppose copyright, but can't do anything about the existence of copyright, you can at least put stuff into the public domain without allowing someone to wrap it up in copyright and resell it. That's basically all the GPL does, and I don't see any conflict there at all.

    Maybe if copyright was written differently, or not at all, we wouldn't have _need_ of the GPL, but that's a different story.