[cc-community] NC, anticapitalism and clashing visions of freedom - was: More discussion on NC

Rob Myers rob at robmyers.org
Fri Oct 15 09:39:17 EDT 2010


On 10/15/2010 02:23 PM, Alan Cox wrote:
>
> There is a big NC computing community and its older than Free Software,
> way older.

There is, and it is old, but it only predates Free Software as an 
explicit political reform movement. There are examples of the free use 
and sharing of code that predate the ability to restrict commercial use 
through copyright (rather than through trade secret and contract law).

- Rob.



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