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Re:Software licensing and my opposition to copyleft by chordalkeyboard on Friday October 30, 2020 @03:44PM (#24946127)
Money existed before government began to interfere with it, and lots of people own gold and silver coins. Its probablt best to consider government fiat as a special case of pseudo-money.
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Re:Software licensing and my opposition to copyleft by BerislavLopac on Sunday November 01, 2020 @06:01PM (#24963323)
I meant "government" in a much wider sense; perhaps "society-approved" might be a better way to put it.
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Re:Software licensing and my opposition to copyleft by chordalkeyboard on Thursday November 05, 2020 @11:36PM (#25004938)
That makes sense but then you can still own money that is a physical commodity like silver.
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