> We have to find ways now to keep information free and still allow the
> people, who produce information (software, music or movies) to make a
> living. Either that or we have to pay with our freedom.
That tool is called copyright. The author releases the work
and in exchange for that a TEMPORARY government protected
monopoly on commercial replication of that work is granted.
The main problem nowadays seems to be that:
1) the "temporary" has been extended by politicians into
an effectively infinite time
2) the copyright holder has much more rights than those
granted by copyright legislation (due to eg. DMCA and
a on of other bought laws)
3) the work could be binary, it would be nice if the source
code would also have to be released into the public domain
after the copyright has expired
Rik
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