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LinuxCon: The tragedy of the commons gatekeepersLinuxCon: The tragedy of the commons gatekeepersPosted Sep 27, 2012 14:43 UTC (Thu) by jackb (subscriber, #41909)Parent article: LinuxCon: The tragedy of the commons gatekeepers
The tragedy is the amount of wasted time and effort that has to be devoted to working around the legal fiction of IP.
Every second spent thinking about this stuff is a second not spent doing something useful.
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LinuxCon: The tragedy of the commons gatekeepers Posted Sep 28, 2012 9:30 UTC (Fri) by njwhite (subscriber, #51848) [Link]
> Every second spent thinking about this stuff is a second not spent doing something useful.
It's tempting to agree with you, but I think you're missing something important.
While the legal problems which are created for us are really annoying and harmful, the process of discussing values in software is very positive, even though it's so often provoked by some awful license or harmful action by a large player.
It isn't just about the software, it's about the freedom, the control over our lives.
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