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

[jahoti]

On 7/12/21 9:37 PM, Yasuaki Kudo wrote:
> 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 😄

Ah- that makes sense! I wish you the best of luck in trying to convince 
your co-workers, and for one am a ready audience if you wish to share 
the eventual results (whatever they may be).

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