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The Technology Liberation Front
The Technology Liberation Front is the tech policy blog dedicated to keeping politicians' hands off the 'net and everything else related to technology.The Technology Liberation Front » Archive » First Sale and the Software Industry
Started by TLF · 10 months ago
1 year ago
1 year ago
I see so much concentration on what is necessary because it will support business plans, business plans which are supposedly required to support 'innovation.'
One item I'd like to see is inclusion of how some recent decisions might affect this. In particular, the Blizzard v. BNetD decison would seem to bear on this issue.
1 year ago
The easing of restrictions on academic sales is a way that Microsoft has stealthily lowered the sales prices of their software, this is part of their effort to head off growth in FOSS.
Like a crack dealer, MS would be happy to give the first 'hit' away for free, especially to school children.
1 year ago
1 year ago
Tim is also glossing over the most important point. Free software depends on "license agreements" as much if not more than Ballmer and Co. By my reading, if the courts were to fully subscribe to the ideas of Fred VL and Tim, the entire Copy Left movement would be crippled. They would not be able to impose any of the limitations on use/redistribution that are contained in the various versions of the GPL. The proprietary software industry can probably survive without shrinkwrap licensing as Tim suggests, but I don't see how the Open Source/Free Software communities can survive under the legal framework that Tim is espousing.