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What do you say to people who want to stop using Open Source software licences and instead use 'Fair Source' licences intended to prevent cloud companies monetising the works of others?

For instance, here's discussion about a blog post titled So you want to compete with or replace open source https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40993787

With no copyright, it would be akin to using permissive BSD-style licensing, which is by no means everyone's preference.



Good for them. Free Software is much too easy to abuse, and we need something that provides additional protections.


Sounds like you believe copyright can serve a legitimate purpose then.

I presume you don't hold that IP is an obsolete idea of a bygone century, as ysofunny put it.




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