Re: [Fsfe-uk] Young Greens moving on FS

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Mark Preston writes:
 
 > You are almost certainly correct when you state that "many Free Software 
 > folks are quite happy with Copyright". The Gnu GPL would not be 
 > necessary if there was no copyright laws that could be infringed. The 
 > Gnu project could happily continue IMHO if copyright laws were abolished.


WRONG WRONG WRONG WRONG WRONG WRONG WRONG WRONG WRONG WRONG WRONG 

Without copyright laws M****S*ft could and would take firefox, bundle
it with their OS under their own brand name, introduce some
non-standard functionality needed for it to work with the OS but
without releasing the source for the changes, and then the original
Mozilla effort would collapse as they would not be able to develop
further improvements. Nor would Mozilla get any credit for their good
work. Same applies to GNU and lots of other good people.

For that matter, neither GNU nor Mozilla or any of the others would
have started without copyright, and imagine what a retrograde world
that would be! It shows that getting rid of copyright only serves to
*help* the monopolists.

We *need* copyright.

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Dale


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