On 2008-02-11 20:11, Matthias-Christian Ott wrote:
It means that successful competition is reached by cooperation. The competition is not won on the old field, but by opening a new field. Example: Encyclopedia Britannica was out-cooperated by Wikipedia, not by competiting on the old proprietary field, but by opening a new field of free cooperation. And of course: Free software is on the way of out-cooperating proprietary software.
But this requires people who believe in Free Software and Wikipedia.
However it will lead to parallel existence of two systems and the more authoritarian system which will dominate by force will win. This force could be law. Thus we have to fight back. The GNU GPL is such weapon, more specifically a powerful virus which will infiltrate the copyright system and finally let it collapse.
GPL is a defensive means, not an end in itself, our strength comes from cooperation. When exclusion by copyright goes, then GPL will go too.
Ciao, Stefan