Re:Patents in Open Source: the important parts of real cases
by breck on Thursday June 03, 2021 @06:19PM
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It really does not. The term makes no logical sense. You cannot have property rights and copyrights and patents. They are fundamentally opposite ideas.
It would be like if the tobacco industry called cigarettes “cancer reducers” and we just all went along with it. Now imagine the tobacco industry controlled every books, television and news producer. That’s what’s happened with the information industry.
If you say otherwise you’re either lying or not thinking.
Now, if you want to make money and don’t believe in ethics, I think that’s a perfectly defensible position. But if you have morals, public domain is the only right thing to do.
It would be like if the tobacco industry called cigarettes “cancer reducers” and we just all went along with it. Now imagine the tobacco industry controlled every books, television and news producer. That’s what’s happened with the information industry.
If you say otherwise you’re either lying or not thinking.
Now, if you want to make money and don’t believe in ethics, I think that’s a perfectly defensible position. But if you have morals, public domain is the only right thing to do.