[cc-community] NC, anticapitalism and clashing visions of freedom - was: More discussion on NC
Rob Myers
rob at robmyers.org
Sun Oct 24 06:19:16 EDT 2010
On 10/24/2010 12:38 AM, Alan Cox wrote:
> On Sat, 23 Oct 2010 11:10:50 -0400
> drew Roberts<zotz at 100jamz.com> wrote:
>
>> On Friday 15 October 2010 09:23:05 Alan Cox wrote:
>>> There is a big NC computing community and its older than Free Software,
>>> way older.
>>
>> Are you sure? Are you speaking of the "official laying out of Free Software
>> ideas"? When did software get accepted as able to be copyrighted in the first
>> place?
>
> That varies by country - but the traditions of non-commercial sharing are
> present before the law was clarified/fixed in some of the countries where
> it was busted.
But I don't think this was "non-commercial" in the restrictive sense
rather than simply "not monetized by the author".
- Rob.
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