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Building on Richard Stallman's Greatest Achievement (Linux Journal)
Over at Linux Journal, Glyn Moody looks at efforts to project Richard Stallman's copyright hack (the GPL) into the World Trade Organization (WTO). "The similarities are clear. Both copyright and the WTO have both been instruments of control that seek to limit what people — and peoples — can do in their respective spheres of creation and trade. Both have steadily accreted powers over the years, until they have become hugely problematic for those who wish to see knowledge and products based on knowledge made as widely available as possible. So the idea that Stallman's hack might be applicable is certainly attractive — exciting even."
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Building on Richard Stallman's Greatest Achievement (Linux Journal) Posted Mar 30, 2009 17:43 UTC (Mon) by shapr (guest, #9077) [Link] I always thought of the GPL as a 'Basilisk' or 'Godel Attack' against the copyright system. See David Langford's short story comp.basilisk FAQ.
Building on Richard Stallman's Greatest Achievement (Linux Journal) Posted Apr 1, 2009 19:35 UTC (Wed) by BrucePerens (guest, #2510) [Link] I would be the last to play down Richard's achievements, but perhaps this is a slight overstatement of the case :-)
Building on Richard Stallman's Greatest Achievement (Linux Journal) Posted Apr 1, 2009 22:42 UTC (Wed) by nix (subscriber, #2304) [Link]
Quite so. It's proprietary software licenses that destroy your mind if you
gaze upon them and truly understand them (if it is even possible).
The GPL is nice and easy to grasp, by comparison, and doesn't stalk you
BLIT
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