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		immibis 57 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: You can't cURL a Border If I couldn't use the AGPL to force Amazon to release Elasticsearch, but they couldn't use normal copyright to force me not to reverse engineer Alexa and Widevine, would it be that bad?

ronsor 57 days ago [–]

It wouldn't be bad. We have more than enough resources to reverse engineer most software, yet we're restricted by arcane EULAs and DRM.

immibis 57 days ago | [–]

And so much "FOSS" is MIT anyway. Abolishing copyright would make literally no difference to MIT-licensed software.

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