Re: the best justice money can buy --Lessig (fwd)
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Date: Fri, 6 Feb 1998 03:13:00 -0800 (PST) From: mark@unicorn.com Subject: Re: the best justice money can buy --Lessig (fwd)
Jim Choate (ravage@ssz.com) wrote:
If there were no copyright nobody would have any reason to market software or much else for that matter.
So I presume that Linux doesn't exist[1]? And, for that matter, I make my living writing software which is given away for free...
So do I, and I bet both our incomes combined doesn't add up to 15 minutes of Bill G's and it won't. From a market perspective we're flies on the back of great elephant. Please be so kind as to describe how and why this marketing mechanism (copyleft) will succed? I've been using and supporting Linux since 1993 (SSZ is listed as a source site in the back of 'Running Linux' since day one) in this manner neither I or anyone else has gotten rich. Linus made so much money off it that he went to work for a company in So. Cali. writing fully commercial software...
[1] Yes, I'm aware the GPL uses copyright to enforce its conditions, but it's copright-free in the important sense: anyone can copy Linux and use it with no fear of black ninjas at their door.
It's copyrighted in the important sense in that it uses the copyright to enforce its conditions. That is just as important as the marketing decisions made by it. ____________________________________________________________________ | | | The most powerful passion in life is not love or hate, | | but the desire to edit somebody elses words. | | | | Sign in Ed Barsis' office | | | | _____ The Armadillo Group | | ,::////;::-. Austin, Tx. USA | | /:'///// ``::>/|/ http://www.ssz.com/ | | .', |||| `/( e\ | | -====~~mm-'`-```-mm --'- Jim Choate | | ravage@ssz.com | | 512-451-7087 | |____________________________________________________________________|
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