I’ve long thought that licensed ‘purchased’ materials is an asinine business plan that some day some hero will come through and shatter. Much of our cultural history has been created through sharing and reshaping. Now that the technology has come along to do it, companies and governments are attempting to create technological and legal barriers [...]
An interesting discussion of the relation between traditional servitudes (e.g. land use restrictions on purchasers of property) and software licenses, aka the ‘new servitudes.’ The first post can be found here. I won’t comment on most of the posts. Randy Picker makes a curious claim:
Consumers as a group can be better off if we make [...]
People often make the argument that lawyers file suits to get things done because they can bill it and get money from doing it that way. There is, of course, TONS of confirmation bias with so many lawsuits to accomplish so many different ends. GPL enforcement, I think, is a possible counter-example. The foundations litigating [...]
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