the best justice money can buy --Lessig (fwd)

mark at unicorn.com mark at unicorn.com
Fri Feb 6 03:22:46 PST 1998



Jim Choate (ravage at 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...

    Mark

[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.







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