Re: Were Intellectual Property to be abolished altogether, would you or FSF support it?

[Yasuaki Kudo]

In a worker cooperative, there is one-person-one-vote democracy.  So I cannot 
just dictate that the Software Licensing we use will be GPL.   If all other 
members say Proprietary is better, I would have to go along with that decision.

Arguments for Proprietary Software might be that we live in a Capitalist system 
and even the cooperatives cannot escape the economic reality that forces their 
hand.

I might still argue that we should 'voluntarily' use Libre-licensing such as 
GPL (but again I would only have one vote 😅)

This is what I meant 😄

> On Jul 13, 2021, at 06:13, jahoti <jahoti@envs.net> wrote:
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>> On 7/12/21 8:29 PM, Yasuaki Kudo wrote:
>> 'Voluntarily' , as in this:
>> http://dklevine.com/papers/ip.ch.2.m1004.pdf
>> Meaning, I would prefer something like GPL citing the benefits described in 
>> the link 😄
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> I'm still not quite sure I understand, sorry. Do you mean citing the benefits 
> of a preamble on top of a free software license body, and then using that on 
> your works?
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