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Re: copyright as real estate
Your argument certainly applies to the VC you mentioned, and possibly to Lessig (but possibly not. I believe he's done some programming.).
But I'm a programmer. Every day, I go to work and make changes to code written by people who no longer work for that company. The software still works and I'm still employed, so I must be understanding something. It's not always easy to understand the code, but I always figure it out, and I'm an average programmer at best. I don't need their brains -- my own is adequate.
Don't misunderstand me, Dave. I'm not arguing that you don't have the right to distribute your work however you want. I just see a flaw in arguing, "No one can understand my code, so they don't need to look at it."
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