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

[Jean Louis]

Beside you can make bylaws, or resolution or policies

On July 13, 2021 7:32:48 AM UTC, Paul Sutton via libreplanet-discuss 
<libreplanet-discuss@libreplanet.org> wrote:
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>On 13/07/2021 08:18, Federico Leva (Nemo) wrote:
>> Il 13/07/21 00:37, Yasuaki Kudo ha scritto:
>>> 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.
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>> You can if you put it in the articles of incorporation or bylaws 
>> (depending on your jurisdiction).
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>> Federico
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>With that sort of set up surely what you can do is present a strong 
>argument not just ethically but also financially and technically for 
>using free software, cite some good examples of where it has proven to 
>be effective.  Ideally that people can related to.
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>The internet runs on free software (well mostly) for example.
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>Libreoffice documentation is coming along nicely, which helps, do not 
>assume people can simply pick up some software and just use it without 
>help.  In some cases are even just able to search and find the right 
>information.
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>I think the idea of platform coops is something I suggested on social 
>hub as a way to expend the fediverse, as in more people running their 
>own server or have small groups doing so. They like the idea we, as
>with 
>free software we need some sort of critical mass using it.
>
>Paul


Jean