30 Jun
2010
30 Jun
'10
5:27 p.m.
On Wednesday 30 June 2010 10:43:41 Dave Phillips wrote:
You do understand that the FSF takes a strong stand on
copyright
violation ?
But they would be happy if programs were not subject to copyright protection
at all.
Whatever you or I might believe about copyright law,
the FSF
clearly understands that it protects projects like Linux. Money is not
the only issue in the misappropriation of what is called intellectual
property. The FSF perceives stuff like Linux as intellectual property,
You really should not put words into their mouths. They are strongly opposed
to the term "intellectual property."
Well, at least RMS: http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/not-ipr.html
entitled to copyright protection by law, and they
enforce action against
violators of the GPL, and with the same justification taken by the
greedy record companies. It's law, and it applies to the good and bad
alike.
Well, the freedoms they want for code would exist without copyright, but since
we have copyright, they use copyright to protect those freedoms. (Their
thinking from what I can tell.)
all the best,
drew