Comments on: It’s Time To Debunk The Myth That Copyright Is Needed To Make Money – Or That It Even Makes Money

By: pelb

pelb — Mon, 14 Jan 2013 20:19:00 +0000

I don’t think you actually understand what “copyright” means

By: LinuxFTW

LinuxFTW — Tue, 01 Jan 2013 15:23:00 +0000

It’s not obfuscation. One depends on the other.

Do you propose the former would be automatically respected without copyright law (possibly reformed) to back it up? Without copyright, anyone can (and will, IMHO) copy the content while removing any reference to the original author.

As Ynot_82 correctly described, copyright is necessary to have enforceable open source licenses for one thing. The GNU licenses, for example, set specific conditions for the recipient of the Free/Open-Source software which would be unenforceable without copyright.

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By: Dan

Dan — Mon, 15 Oct 2012 14:21:00 +0000

The idea that copyright is “property” is a lie perpetuated by special interests. Copyright is a RESTRICTION on property: Big Government telling us what we can’t do with our printing presses and computers. The authors of the Constitution allowed this restriction based on the belief that a TEMPORARY monopoly on publishing would “promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts” by providing a financial incentive to authors and inventors. If copyright does not actually provide this incentive, then it has no reason to exist.

By: Y.A.

Y.A. — Sun, 14 Oct 2012 14:11:00 +0000

Nope. It’s just that Google has finally committed to sending patches back to Linux. The Android filesystem and userland are completely different and they simply cannot be merged.

Props to Google though, even though being late, the Android code underwent a massive effort to be more like Linux so they can send patches back-and-forth easier, benefitting both projects.

By: Y.A.

Y.A. — Sun, 14 Oct 2012 14:08:00 +0000

Wrong. Linux was coded from scratch in 1991 because Torvalds did not have the money to buy a UNIX OS (which were proprietary and cost $1000s at the time) and his university was switching to Solaris.

So he coded it from scratch and made it exactly like Linux.

BSD *is* a continuation of the age-old UNIX codebase, though it uses a different brace style (KNF, as opposed to The One True Brace Style which K&R used when they made UNIX and the C programming language) and it completely different in general.

That’s why we call these Unix-like, because they are only POSIX-compliant (read: Unix-like) on a very basic level. HP/UX is an example of a true UNIX.

By: Rick Falkvinge

Rick Falkvinge — Thu, 11 Oct 2012 18:23:00 +0000

I’m not sure most people make a conscious choice when buying a PC, they’re just clicking “I accept” and are barely aware that there’s something called “Windows” that comes preinstalled. I’d wager most people just see it as part of what they bought, part of the PC doctrine.

By: Rick Falkvinge

Rick Falkvinge — Thu, 11 Oct 2012 10:32:00 +0000

I find this comment quite odd.

Through this article, I argue that you don’t need the copyright monopoly in order to make money, and that it even can prevent you from doing so.

When it comes to my (first) book, which is explicitly, in the public domain, it is true that I am selling copies of it. This is the exact point I am making, that making money on creativity without the copyright monopoly is both possible and advantageous.

Your comment seems to imply that a lack of copyright monopolization means that everything must be for free, which is the exact point I’m NOT making.

Sure, you can buy it. Or copy it. And give copies in turn. Or sell the copies you made, if you like. All the better: the more you give away, the more I will sell, too.

Cheers,
Rick

By: 7th_Guest

7th_Guest — Thu, 11 Oct 2012 04:18:00 +0000

And the answer to that is volume. Amass a group of (young) like-minded ppl that have become knowledgeable enough and feel strongly about this issue (let’s call ‘em, say, ironically Pirates) and get ‘em to correspond with their local and national representatives en masse, telling ‘em sternly, but politely, how important the matter is to them and how it’s going to be the main decider of their vote next time. Should the incumbent politicians not share/include those views in their running platforms come next elections, they’ll know that a significant number of ballots will be sure not to go their way. See if that works.

Hint: It has and it does.

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