Why is he so smug?

You dumb nemeniggers piss me off. When will you let go off the microsoft "communism" meme? Hie bluepilled can you even be to repeat this crap for years?
Communism is like proprietary software; everyone gets the same shut that spies on you and sharing, or even selling copies is prohibited. Free software has provided the free market that rolls tech today. Get fucked, slave.

>Nobody forces you to live in the USSR therefore Communism doesn't force people.

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Actually, people were forced to live in the USSR. People where literally shot trying to deflect.

Meanwhile, nobody is pointing a gun at your head and forcing you to write derivative work. You're free to write everything from scratch and license it however you fucking want.

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>That's ok! The freetard foundation will sue me and milk my wallet if I claim copyright on a program I wrote that uses that one glibc-exclusive feature that has no non-GNU alternative, but at least they don't have a gun hahahaha! Free software has never been tried anyway lol.

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>no non-GNU alternative
Write it yourself. You have no right to come here and steal other people's work without paying back, that would be fucking communism.

>defending the right to do what you want
NO
Its the GPL way or the highway fucko

>steal other people's work
Yeah like that sequence of characters belong to you. Like that idea belongs to you. Like it's your intellectual property.

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It is my intellectual property, which is why I have the copyright to it. But I'm willing to share it with you, as long as you follow the conditions outlined in the license. If you don't want to follow those conditions, then fine. But then you can't have my work.

> intellectual property
there's no such thing

Then explain why literally the first word of the GPL is "copyright".

Explain why Harry Pottering doesn't exist if it's in the title of a series of books.

Intellectual property rights, aka copyrights, is the reason why a software license such as the GPL is possible in the first place.

the previous post and this one are of a diff user btw. i should concede that copyright does exist, its silly to say otherwise. what i actually mean is that it is illegitimate and a violation of property rights. remember not to argue out of consequence (thats a fallacy). IP laws are basically saying that if you want a product, then you must obtain them from me and no one else otherwise people are going to get hurt thanks to the govt having my back. do you not own the product of your labor and materials?

>IP laws are basically saying that if you want a product, then you must obtain them from me and no one else otherwise people are going to get hurt thanks to the govt having my back.
That's fine. That allows me to dictate the terms, such as requiring that derivative work must be released back to the community.

>do you not own the product of your labor and materials?
Yes, you do. That's what copyrights are there to ensure, to protect MY work and MY labour from being used by greedy communist fucks like and that just want to use my work for free without contributing back.

Copyright has nothing to do with any "intellectual property“. There are copyrights, patents, etc. Lumping those things together into an imaginary "intellectual property“ is brainwash newspeak, invented by lobbyists to make people believe some record company's intellect is getting robbed, when you send your friend a mixtape.

>Copyright has nothing to do with any "intellectual property“
Imagine being this fucking retarded.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyright

Read the first fucking sentence.

>There are copyrights, patents, etc.
And they are different approaches to protecting intellectual property.

>Lumping those things together into an imaginary "intellectual property“ is brainwash newspeak,
No.

Contracts or licenses you make with people are fine. But if I stumble upon some code and I am in no contract with anyone, I should be free to choose whatever I may do with that code.
Also just because results are what you want does not mean that something is ethical (literally asked you to not argue from consequence lol). you think its okay for government to basically force you into giving up your property rights at gunpoint?

>Wikipedia is my source of truth

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i should also clarify, and ask you this: what is it that you are actually defending: IP laws or contracts/licenses? because the former isnt ethical while the latter is.

Porn when?

>But if I stumble upon some code and I am in no contract with anyone
If I stumble upon your unlocked car, I am in no contract with anyone :^)

>I should be free to choose whatever I may do with that code.
You're not, that's literally plagiarism.

>you think its okay for government to basically force you into giving up your property rights at gunpoint?
Read my post, I'm literally arguing the opposite, namely that it protects my rights.

>provides no source in the first place, expects to be debunked with one though
based doublestandard stroke poster

>what is it that you are actually defending: IP laws or contracts/licenses?
both

Copyrights are a good thing
Contracts/licenses are a good thing.

Not an argument

luckily i didn't have to pay to read you posting your intellectual property
you should secure it though, someone may steal it

Invalid argument, as both you and I accepted the terms and conditions of hiroshima nagasaki by posting on Jow Forums, as stated on the fucking first page.

youtube.com/user/TheTedNelson/feed

All you did was confirming that there's an imaginary thing that doesn't exist but everyone is talking about it like it does.

t. didn't actually read it

If i stumble upon your code, i dont owe you anything, as long as it is ethically obtained (copy pasting for example). breaking into your server whether physically or digitally is coercion, and thus it isnt obtained ethically same with the car. if you happen upon my car then feel free to copy it, just dont move or interact with it because that would be infringing on my porperty. you are conflating the characteristics of physical and immaterial things, copying code has no real analogue to real life objects.
plagiarism is stating that you wrote something yourself, which is deceit, and a form of coercion. if i simply state that the code isnt originally mine i have done nothing unethical.

>as long as it is ethically obtained (copy pasting for example).
Plagiarism is unethical. Stop stealing, commie.

Intellectual property is for poor people.

im literally advocating for more property rights. please read my post fully, then explain how copy pasting is stealing.

he has more software freedom than all wintards and itoddlers combined

also its not my fault you freely presented your source or it somehow leaked, without ever entering contract with me. not my job to find an ethical business model for you

Daily reminder that your arguments/shitty licenses are pointless when the wtfpl license exists

When i take your intellect it's gone.

have sex

I did read your post fully, reciting snippets (direct quotation) of someone else's work is plagiarism. You cannot do that unless it's your own work. Learn how copyrights work.

No matter how you try to justify it, you're just a thieving little communist nigger. If you don't want to respect the license and contribute back, fine. Don't use other people's work then.

I'm willing to bet money that you are a literal Pajeet or a chink, since you're obviously having a difficult time understanding why plagiarism is unethical.

Except tha its not? I still have the original idea in my brain or somewhere physically detailed. If someone steals the paper and ink thats on it though, that isn't ethical. Merely copying it though does not damage or remove the original. how is copying stealing?

The cuckest of the cuck licenses. Does bot protect for oapent trolling , no warranty security, no nothing. WTFPL is even more cucked than a BSD licence. Even fucking public domain is better than WTFPL. Get the fuck out brainlet.

>how is copying stealing?
It's not, it's plagiarism.

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I literally stated that claiming you did something when in fact you did not is a form of coercion (so plagiarism is coercion). As long as I state that I am not the originator of this code, i have NOT plagiarised. I understand how copyrights work i just think they are unethical, arguing that point is like saying in medeival europe "well owning slaves is fine because its legal". unethical laws can and do exist.
so you admit it isnt stealing. and if i dont lie by saying its my work, then i havent plagiarised. its all good then i suppose? :^)

No, it's copying. Look up plagiarism, retard.

>and if i dont lie by saying its my work, then i havent plagiarised.
You will have to release the source material in that case, which is fine.

Copying other people's work is plagiarism, retard.

The satisfying feel when you know that your software will always be free.

"Communists didn't invent sharing" -Eric S. Raymond

It's not, retard. Look it up already, dumbfuck.

>unironically bringing ESR into this
stop

>release the source to prove that im not lying
well then we agree. i just have a different reason to agree than you. all code should be open source because otherwise there is a party within the contract that isn't fully informed, thus the contract is illegitimate.
>copying is plagiarism
didnt we just cover this and conclude that it isn't?

This communism shit ruins every FOSS thread.

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The GPL license haven't killed nor sent 2 million people to GULAG, lost 27 million people to the war, haven't started an henocide, or destroyed the culture of some nation. If it's an attempt to establish communism, it's a pretty fucking good one. The biggest reason we have so many great free & open source projects today is the GPL license. The biggest reason people nowadays have a culture of sharing the source code is the GPL license. The willingness to share and build something together, as a community, is beautiful. Thank you, rms. Thank you, smug GNU. And also thank you, BSD community.