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Re:Ask HN: Right to Repair for Software? by josephcsible on Friday January 27, 2023 @01:04AM (#34543092)
If I were dictator for a day, here's what I'd do:

1. Software would become entirely non-copyrightable

2. Software that infringes on a patent claim would be prima facie evidence of the claim's invalidity

3. Distributing any software in a way that would violate the AGPLv3 would be illegal (with the exception that if you had access to binaries but not the full corresponding source for a program prior to this change, you could still freely distribute everything you do have afterwards), and both upstream authors and downstream recipients would have standing to sue over it

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