Thread: Eur Skeptics te new voice of Europe?
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Unread 15 Jun 2004, 11:56   #80
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Re: Eur Skeptics te new voice of Europe?
I disagree with that and don't really have much respect for Stallman's opinion in general, but its not really relevant.

I think the key point would be that if the capitalist system provides the perfect enviornment for open-source software to thrive (which it does), how could you claim that the success of opensource software would be a refutation rather than an endorsement of the system? The advocate of open source software is today provided with a near-perfect enviornment in which to operate on his principles - there doesn't seem to be any reason for him to advocate the abolishment of copyright altogether, other than his vague feeling that he somehow has the 'right' to the creations of others regardless of their wishes. Today, a person is free to produce all the open source software he chooses (leaving aside issues regarding software patents, which is something else entirely), and to freely use the open source software which others have chosen to write. Ths is not 'anti-capitalist', it _is_ capitalist.
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