"Unfortunately, the "limited rights" (economic subsidy) to inventors are not very limited at all. This sort of takes away any motivation to help them acquire monopolies from work and ideas they frequently got unrestricted from the rest of society in the first place. I'm just hoping that of the next 100,000 great ideas, I'll be able to leverage a few of those. Gosh, how inefficient! Limiting the exploitation of ideas for 20 yrs to just 1 person instead of what is natural (unlimited use by all)."
Having been involved in the WordPress development community since almost the beginning, I know why it chose the GPL and how it restricts abuse by Automattic
This site has over 1,000 'wiki' pages, many thousands of documents, several thousands of videos, and about 50,000 blog posts or articles. We need to make them easier to find/navigate.
Even if one can see/find a link to "the study" (in the Bezos-controlled publication), most people won't look any further and just take everything at face value.
The FSF led by Geoffrey S. Knauth with his friend Richard Stallman in the FSF's Board [...] Let's encourage people to adopt GNU/Linux. There has never been a better time.
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Jose_X
2009-05-27 12:16:25