[OSM-legal-talk] [OSM-talk] Community vs. Licensing

[Simon Ward]

On Tue, Aug 31, 2010 at 10:40:32AM +0200, Florian Lohoff wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 31, 2010 at 04:41:16AM +0000, Jane Smith wrote:
> > copyright are the chains of the modern worker, holding to the means of
> > Production.
> > 
> > We all know copyright has maps. But data underneath is important so that is
> > what we workers should control.
> 
> No copyright was the true reason for Germanys rapid industrial expansion:
> 
> http://www.spiegel.de/international/zeitgeist/0,1518,710976,00.html

Maybe. An Ars Technica article[1] points out some obvious flaws.  I’d
like to see a much more detailed investigation.

[1]: http://arstechnica.com/telecom/news/2010/08/drool-britannia-did-weak-copyright-laws-help-germany-outpace-the-united-kingdom.ars

Simon
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A complex system that works is invariably found to have evolved from a
simple system that works.—John Gall
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