Re:Open source means surrendering your monopoly over commerc...
by cheph on Wednesday January 20, 2021 @09:41AM
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> This is a rejection of how intellectual property typically works — copyright laws exist for the express purpose of creating an artificial monopoly for your business, and FOSS licenses exist for the express purpose of breaking it.
Wrong. Copyright laws exists because we operate on the assumption that people own the fruits of their labour and have exclusive rights to those fruits unless they state otherwise.
It is as much an artificial monopoly as property rights of your phone is an artificial monopoly ... in that neither is because that is not what monopoly means.
Re:Open source means surrendering your monopoly over commerc...
by gpm on Wednesday January 20, 2021 @09:47AM
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Copyright laws "provide a temporary monopoly to promote the useful arts and sciences" in the united states. Any purpose other than that would be unconstitutional.
Wrong. Copyright laws exists because we operate on the assumption that people own the fruits of their labour and have exclusive rights to those fruits unless they state otherwise.
It is as much an artificial monopoly as property rights of your phone is an artificial monopoly ... in that neither is because that is not what monopoly means.