[opensource-dev] oh give me a break

Gareth Nelson gareth at garethnelson.com
Tue Mar 16 15:19:07 PDT 2010


On Tue, Mar 16, 2010 at 10:03 PM, Glen Canaday <gcanaday at gmail.com> wrote:
> The Gimp is free software but the pictures made with it aren't unless
> that right is given by the creator. Same as in SL. And that's the major
> point that brings the whole copyright / theft discussion back on topic
> for the list. Seems a few lurkers are thinking that they own the hole
> they've been digging themselves into. I'm all for free tools - the Mona
> Lisa could have been painted with free brushes or magic special
> Microsoft brushes - but that doesn't mean that because I gave DaVinci
> the brush, canvas, and paints that I'm free to take the art out of the
> Louvre.

I'd be inclined to say that this is a bad analogy - what's closer is
whether you can paint your own mona lisa, or otherwise copy it -
you'll not find support for actual theft from me :)

But back on topic - regardless of all our unique individual political
views on copyright, it's definitely a bad bad idea for LL to encourage
copyright infringement on their platform - or anything illegal for
that matter - this is something we can agree on, yes?

I'd hope another thing to be agreed on is that it's not good to
implement strong DRM measures and cripple legit users while at most
slowing down temporarily those who want to break the rules - yay or
nay?


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