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Re:OpenAI Feared "Optics" of what might appear on Hacker News by cisc on Sunday September 27, 2026 @06:27AM (#49865355)
What strawman? The GPL has been one of the drivers of the success of Linux and copyright is what makes that work.

You still haven't articulated how that's restrictive.

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Re:OpenAI Feared "Optics" of what might appear on Hacker News by ChickeNES on Sunday September 27, 2026 @06:32AM (#49865395)
>> All the GPL does is restrict rights, unlike permissive licenses. > So.. Linux is bad and we should all use BSDs

I did not bring up Linux, much less called it bad, yet you made up a strawman and started attacking it. Good day.

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Re:OpenAI Feared "Optics" of what might appear on Hacker News by cisc on Sunday September 27, 2026 @06:35AM (#49865421)
We're talking about the GPL. Linux is a major project protected by the GPL.

A license in isolation isn't interesting. The practical results of projects under a license is interesting.

Linux is a very successful practical result under the GPL and copyright makes the GPL work. Without copyright the GPL would be unenforceable.

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Re:OpenAI Feared "Optics" of what might appear on Hacker News by tpmoney on Sunday September 27, 2026 @09:46PM (#49872613)
> Without copyright the GPL would be unenforceable.

Without copyright, the GPL would be unnecessary.

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Re:OpenAI Feared "Optics" of what might appear on Hacker News by cisc on Monday September 28, 2026 @06:28AM (#49875898)
Without copyright the little guys would constantly be screwed over by the big guys.

It really is one of those "without law you cannot have freedom" things.

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