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I will not deny them that right, but "I will call you a scab because I can" is a feeble and quite childish counter-argument.

I hoped for a more intellectual discussion on why public domain is apparently immoral.



You argued for your rights, and I reminded you others have rights as well (because it seemed you had forgotten).

You're a scab if you work for free, replacing a worker that would have been paid otherwise. If you get paid for your MIT licensed code, you're not a scab :)

Because copyleft code benefits society as a whole, and the benefits remain around. Non-copyleft mostly benefits companies that are free to use instead of hiring someone to do it, or pay the authors of the GPL code for a proprietary license.


> I hoped for a more intellectual discussion on why public domain is apparently immoral.

Pay me 3000 euros and I'll send you a link to Das Capital.




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