Hubble is a joint project of NASA and ESA. So why Hubble's future is depending only on NASA actions?
from esa.int
Partnerships
-NASA is ESA's partner for the HST. ESA has a nominal 15% stake in the mission and has, among other things, provided the Faint Object Camera, the first two solar panels that powered the spacecraft and a team of space scientists and engineers at the Space Telescope Science Institute in Baltimore, United States.
So shouldnt we Europeans provide at least those 15% to save Hubble? It is our toy too.
The simple truth is that copyrights are more like a government regulation that screws up commerce
no no, I think copyrights are just fine. BTW GPLed SW is copyrighted too. Your desciption is however perdect for software patents (and probably other patents too). Patents mean monopolies to the entire idea. Copyrights are related only to a single implementation of it - you can freely reimplement.
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I have to say that in my case it doesnt work either. Money are useless for me. There are too many thing you cannot buy.
Hubble is a joint project of NASA and ESA. So why Hubble's future is depending only on NASA actions?
from esa.int Partnerships -NASA is ESA's partner for the HST. ESA has a nominal 15% stake in the mission and has, among other things, provided the Faint Object Camera, the first two solar panels that powered the spacecraft and a team of space scientists and engineers at the Space Telescope Science Institute in Baltimore, United States.
So shouldnt we Europeans provide at least those 15% to save Hubble? It is our toy too.
The simple truth is that copyrights are more like a government regulation that screws up commerce
no no, I think copyrights are just fine. BTW GPLed SW is copyrighted too. Your desciption is however perdect for software patents (and probably other patents too). Patents mean monopolies to the entire idea. Copyrights are related only to a single implementation of it - you can freely reimplement.