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Re: the best justice money can buy --Lessig (fwd)
Jim Choate <[email protected]> writes:
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> Forwarded message:
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> > Date: Thu, 5 Feb 1998 08:23:58 -0800 (PST)
> > From: [email protected]
> > Subject: Re: the best justice money can buy --Lessig
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> > Of course there's a free-market remedy for Microsoft; eliminate copyright.
> > anyone can copy Microsoft software for free, it would be forced to compete
> > on real benefits rather than installed base.
>
> If there were no copyright nobody would have any reason to market software
> or much else for that matter. I would predict that much of the technology
> and infrastructure we have now wouldn't exist. It would also stiffle
> creativity and new methodologies because there would be no profit in it to
> recoup development costs. Those who would survive in such a market would be
> the 800-lb gorillas because only they would have the resources to squash the
> smaller companies.
Software development seems to be thriving in countries that aren't very keen
on enforcing copyright laws - do you care to explain why?
>
> Free markets monopolize.
Hmm... There's no copyright on perfumes. There are market leaders in perfumes,
but no monopoly; hardly even an olygopoly.
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