Archive of UserLand's first discussion group, started October 5, 1998.
Re: is copyright a moral obligation?
Author: Brad Pettit Posted: 8/25/2000; 3:06:31 PM Topic: Next survey: Are you an open source developer? Msg #: 20271 (In response to 20184) Prev/Next: 20270 / 20272
is it appropriate to reward those people through the mechanism of copyright?Absolutely. The programmer writing code is often inventing, and the value of any invention is frequently not known in advance. Are you suggesting that the investment of a programmer's own time and resources is not valuable enough to warrant compensation unless the compensation is fixed in advance? That the risk and investment of speculative programming shouldn't be rewarded with potentially open-ended ROI? That sounds socialist.
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