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laurelrusswurm (laurelrusswurm)'s status on Tuesday, 25-Sep-2012 02:03:53 EDT 
laurelrusswurm
Food For Thought ♻ @Falkvinge New article: A better definition of "non-commercial" - http://ur1.ca/aergq !CC !copyright !copyleft #NC -
arnebab (arnebab)'s status on Friday, 04-Jan-2013 13:32:32 EST 
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what would you do if bill gates himself would use your works? If someone owns 2 billion $, he’s still a natural person. -
zotz (zotz)'s status on Friday, 04-Jan-2013 13:55:29 EST 
zotz
Live with it? The Free Software folks live with a Free that even allows the big corps to make money and it seems to work. -
laurelrusswurm (laurelrusswurm)'s status on Friday, 04-Jan-2013 15:19:08 EST
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@arnebab Bill Gates ≠ Microsoft. Gates is a human, Microsoft is a corporation ~ an artificial construct no matter what lawmakers say. -
laurelrusswurm (laurelrusswurm)'s status on Friday, 04-Jan-2013 15:23:05 EST
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@arnebab I'm learning; my first novel is !CC by-nc-sa & after 5 years will dedicate it to !PublicDomain ... next one will by by-sa !SelfPub -
laurelrusswurm (laurelrusswurm)'s status on Friday, 04-Jan-2013 15:27:27 EST
laurelrusswurm
@arnebab !CC Non-commercial is tough one; I think it is a necessary transition for most creators who grew up amidst !copyright propaganda -
laurelrusswurm (laurelrusswurm)'s status on Friday, 04-Jan-2013 15:31:57 EST
laurelrusswurm
@arnebab ∴ Bill Gates can use my novel as he choses so long as he does not financially profit by it ~ once it is !PD he can do whatever. -
arnebab (arnebab)'s status on Friday, 04-Jan-2013 16:40:57 EST
arnebab
@laurelrusswurm if MS belongs completely to Gates, then as long as Gates can use it, so can MS -
arnebab (arnebab)'s status on Friday, 04-Jan-2013 16:41:51 EST
arnebab
@zotz i don’t argue for #nc. I just say that the distinction between company and person is not useful. -
arnebab (arnebab)'s status on Friday, 04-Jan-2013 16:42:24 EST
arnebab
@laurelrusswurm that’s cool! -
arnebab (arnebab)'s status on Friday, 04-Jan-2013 16:43:27 EST
arnebab
@laurelrusswurm with the proposed change of #nc to not for companies, Bill Gates could profit. but the BSI could not… -
laurelrusswurm (laurelrusswurm)'s status on Friday, 04-Jan-2013 21:02:01 EST
laurelrusswurm
@arnebab There are different kinds of companies. Creators often offer services through personal companies because creation is our business… -
laurelrusswurm (laurelrusswurm)'s status on Friday, 04-Jan-2013 21:05:25 EST
laurelrusswurm
@arnebab A sole proprietorship that sells an artist's services is very different from a multinational corporation that bullies governments -
laurelrusswurm (laurelrusswurm)'s status on Friday, 04-Jan-2013 21:11:18 EST
laurelrusswurm
@arnebab I confess, I've been quite preoccupied with offline life lately, so I'm unaware of this change in !CC #nc (will have to catch up) -
arnebab (arnebab)'s status on Saturday, 05-Jan-2013 05:12:25 EST
arnebab
@laurelrusswurm it’s just a reform idea floating around -
zotz (zotz)'s status on Monday, 07-Jan-2013 11:17:23 EST
zotz
In general, I disagree that such a distinction is not useful. Have not pondered deeply in this context.
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