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posted by kerravon E-mail, Ligao, Free World North, 27.03.2022, 11:28

> > > Sorry to break it, but "we" can jolly well "make progress" in our own
> > ways.
> > > We can jolly well write code, and release code, on our own terms.
> > It may or may not be making progress, but it isn't
> > allowing companies to use code without restriction,
> > thus allowing them to make progress.
>
> I don't care about what companies want. Why should I? They are not me,
> and I am not them.
I didn't say you "should". If you lower the costs
to business, that will normally lower the costs
charged to the consumer. But if you don't care
about 7 billion people on the planet, I'm not
really saying you should.

> If Hypothetical Start-Up Inc. wants something from me, they can ask nicely.
> Or they can get lost. It is that simple.
That's fine. That's making a trade on the free
market.

> Companies exist to serve people, not the other way around.
Companies exist to make a profit, not "serve"
anyone.

> > > Think of it as working alongside, in parallel to the
> > system.
> > Fine. So the companies need to develop their
> > own software from scratch (and pass the costs
> > on to the consumer) because you want to exist
> > in parrallel to them instead of cooperating
> > with them, because (insert reason here).
>
> Well, yes. Or, your Hypothetical Start-Up Inc. can negotiate
> a separate software license with the original copyright owners — which,
> surprise surprise, it is very much in their power to do. Then everyone
> wins.
That's fine. It's your work, you can do what
you want with it. All I'm saying is that a
body of work doesn't become truly free until
there is a public domain version of it. I'm
not expecting you to make your own hard work
public domain. But just don't be surprised
when someone like me chooses to make their
freeware public domain so that it is truly
free and gives 7 billion people access to
the technology.

> Sorry, but I do not see any sort of moral obligation to hand over
> the rights of my code to Hypothetical Start-Up Inc.,
You don't have a moral obligation to do so.

> just because I am
> releasing the source code. Corporations do not have inherent rights to
> anything.
True.

> Again, corporations do not even have the inherent right
> to exist, unlike people. Companies exist only to serve natural persons.
I don't agree with this, but it's probably not
helpful to debate it.

> This is what I think. Now prove me wrong.
Most of what you said is not wrong.

BFN. Paul.

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