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re: political terminology question 

@amiloradovsky@functional.cafe Yes I meant what you meant, excluding trademarks, just no term for it as per this thread, though trademarks can be quite overreaching as well, I assume because of being part of same family of laws, and not something more sensible.

I would doubt a conspiracy of lawyers, the good professionals would not have such an incentive, and the bad are at an obvious disadvantage.

The wealthy do have an advantage, but that is for other reasons and applies to almost everything.

The "share-alike" expectation/requirement of copyleft goes directly against abolishing the laws immediately, unless you implement some other laws that accommodate that. Copyright culture and industry is established and reigns supreme, even if laws are abolished the monopolies are there and will not go away. I wouldn't be surprised if Apple says that they are not selling computers anymore but just renting them, and spin up a marketing campaign that would somehow make that appealing. Copyleft strives to replace that industry and culture, more than just change the laws. From the perspective of copyleft there is no reason to give up these tools, as the "other side" has used and abused them to full extent already, and as the victor has even less need of them now, especially in software where most people are content with binary blobs or SaaS as long as there is no intrusive DRM.

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