Posts Tagged ‘copyright’
Ball & Chain OS
Posted by Benjamin J. Thompson | Filed under Linux, Technology
Only one thing keeps Windows on my home PC: the nagging fear that a must-have piece of hardware will come along, and the manufacturer will have been dumb enough to lock the device into Windows-only compatibility. (more…)
Copyrights stifle creativity.
Posted by Benjamin J. Thompson | Filed under Liberty
So says Jeff Tucker, in his article “The 100-year Sentence.” Is it really rational for a creative work to be untouchable until nearly a century after the creator’s death? It seems the legal structure intended to foster creativity can actually wind up causing a shortage.