cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/1366698
Richard Stallman was right since the very beginning. Every warning, every prophecy realised. And, worst of all, he had the solution since the start. The problem is not Richard Stallman or the Free Software Foundation. The problem is us. The problem is that we didn’t listen.
I’m sorry, you’re not the first person to bring up this argument so I feel like you’re just repeating what you’ve heard before without understanding it. If there were no copyright and patent laws, creative Commons and the GPL wouldn’t be necessary.