Thoughts?
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I found a YouTube link in your post. Here are links to the same video on alternative frontends that protect your privacy:
The difference between piracy and trademark really is just class.
Thoughts?
Just as there are only so many (or so few) chord progressions in music to make variations from, only so many ways to create a specific algorithm or program in the same programming language, only so many ways to make a font (in sans/serif, the artsy ones could be made in a lot of variations, but my point still stands), capitalizing and privatizing art and science industries–denying rights to tech and “intellectual property” through copyright and patents–is very inefficient and delays progress. I want all art, tech, and science to be open sourced and its creators recognized and subsidized without corporate publisher middlemen existing to snatch all of the profits and ownership rights out of the work the workers put in.
So yeah, I am in full support, as I assume any socialist or even any left-leaning, open source advocate would be. Even in community college–with many students with some of the worst liberal and fascist sympathetic brainworms I have heard–my classmates were basically all in agreement that patents on software make no sense, as how do you even declare and restrict ownership of a piece code, like a specific combination of for loops, if statements, etc. that solve a specific problem in a specific way? If someone else needs to solve the problem in the same fashion elsewhere, why should we bar them from doing so? Most developers in different companies just “steal” each other’s work anyway, same for artists, musicians, engineers, font developers, etc.
