Post AwXlIprTj03YsR8KX2 by sofia@chaos.social
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(DIR) Post #AwXlInfhrnS45LbtuC by rechelon@mastodon.social
2025-07-25T20:42:10Z
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"Intellectual property" is a stupendously evil concept, one that kills millions while holding back discourse, science, and art, but it is also a disease that inexorably infests and ruins even the smallest corners of our lives.
(DIR) Post #AwXlIozww1EqCQ5a64 by tml@mementomori.social
2025-07-26T08:49:05Z
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@rechelon I hope people who like this toot realise that what Free Software (and Open Source in general) is based on is intellectual property laws, i.e copyright? What do you think the GPL for instance is?
(DIR) Post #AwXlIprTj03YsR8KX2 by sofia@chaos.social
2025-07-27T00:42:32Z
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@tml FOSS does not require copyright, because public domain (= uncopyrighted) software is accepted under both FSF and OSI definitions.there are successful public domain software projects, see SQLite.the main purpose of FOSS licenses is to limit the damage done by copyright.the purpose of copyright is to create a monopoly, and FOSS licenses are desiged to defy monopoly privieges. (how well they do is another question)@rechelon
(DIR) Post #AwXlIqzfW2CaO7yNw8 by grillchen@brotka.st
2025-07-27T01:40:00.000947Z
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@sofia @tml @rechelon also the concept of copyleft is not necessarly to say copyright laws are awesome. it is a solution using existing legal tools.
(DIR) Post #AwXlIxYz5e14lOXfoe by sofia@chaos.social
2025-07-27T01:02:39Z
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@tml it also seems to me that the more restrictve licenses like (L)GPL do not prevent the more abusive uses FOSS software.WebKit and blink are partially LGPL licensed. Android uses the GPL-licensed Linux kernel, yet many Android devices make it virtually impossible to exchange the operating system.i think it's implausible that the abuses of the Android ecosystem would be possible, if drivers and hardware could not be copyrighted.@rechelon