[Noisebridge-discuss] Just say no to SOPA

[jim]

    i meant it in reverse. 
    i like open hardware/software/whatever, it's morally good 
and right. 
    somehow i can't work up a big sweat about knock off shops 
that are making a buck by cloning other manufacturer's stuff. 
(i don't like faking the brand name, i.e. brand theft, but not 
all knock off stuff is falsely branded....) 

    there's a lot of open software that's creative in its own 
right, e.g. gimp. there's even the occasional not-made-for-windows 
products, an especially joy for me. 
    and there's no way to copyright the expression of a workflow. 
patents are another thing, i.e. more nearly evil. 





On Sun, 2012-01-15 at 19:36 +0100, miloh wrote:
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> On Sun, Jan 15, 2012 at 7:16 PM, jim <jim at systemateka.com> wrote:
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>            for some reason, "knock off artists" brings to mind
>         open software/hardware....
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> LOL, that's pretty fucked up jim, and weird to hear coming from you --
> since I thought you would recognize better than most that the
> paradigms of what most people think of as software are just emulated
> tools and emulated workflows from real world hands on trades.  knock
> offs indeed.
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