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lionkor 2 days ago

Do you dislike copyright also when it protects your intellectual property, and makes things like software licenses possible?

bambax a day ago | parent | next [-]

Yes, I do. I think the world would be a better place if there were no Microsoft, Adobe or Oracle. We would still have OSes and databases, we would be fine.

immibis 2 days ago | parent | prev [-]

If I couldn't use the AGPL to force Amazon to release Elasticsearch, but they couldn't use normal copyright to force me not to reverse engineer Alexa and Widevine, would it be that bad?

ronsor 2 days ago | parent [-]

It wouldn't be bad. We have more than enough resources to reverse engineer most software, yet we're restricted by arcane EULAs and DRM.

immibis 2 days ago | parent [-]

And so much "FOSS" is MIT anyway. Abolishing copyright would make literally no difference to MIT-licensed software.