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on Thursday January 18 2018, @02:27PM
from the waiting-for-the-multiverse-donor dept.
from the waiting-for-the-multiverse-donor dept.
Over at the Meshed Insights blog, Simon Phipps writes about why the public domain falls short and more detailed licensing is needed in order to extend rights to a software community.
Yes, public domain may give you the rights you need. But in an open source project, it's not enough for you to determine you personally have the rights you need. In order to function, every user and contributor of the project needs prior confidence they can use, improve and share the code, regardless of their location or the use to which they put it. That confidence also has to extend to their colleagues, customers and community as well.
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(Score: 2) by meustrus on Thursday January 18 2018, @07:30PM (4 children)
What you are describing sounds like feudal Europe. Which I may remind you is called the "dark ages" for a reason.
If there isn't at least one reference or primary source, it's not +1 Informative. Maybe the underused +1 Interesting?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday January 18 2018, @07:39PM
Also, feudalism is not the reason that period was called "the Dark Ages".
Is there no end to your inanity?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday January 18 2018, @08:35PM (2 children)
The black plague and Mongols killing everybody, book burnings, etc, is why it's called the dark ages. Lack of strong central authority is not.
(Score: 2) by meustrus on Friday January 19 2018, @03:09PM (1 child)
Mongols are a strong external threat that is best countered by a large unified defense force, which is impossible when feudal lords are too busy fighting each other.
Book burnings are a consequence of ideology and totalitarianism. I'd like to see somebody try to rationalize how the feudal system was not inherently anti-enlightenment and totalitarian.
The aforementioned squabbling feudal lords kept society from advancing by funneling its resources into a never-ending parade of small wars. Many, many times a potentially successful medieval society broke down when the strong central authority died and his many sons went about carving up the kingdom into little warring fiefdoms.
The plague though, I'm not going to blame that on feudalism. But the dark ages includes centuries where the plague didn't even exist.
If there isn't at least one reference or primary source, it's not +1 Informative. Maybe the underused +1 Interesting?
(Score: 2) by t-3 on Saturday January 20 2018, @02:21PM
There book burnings were a result of the plague. Illiterates who were hopeless and disillusioned, but knew that pieces of paper recorded debts they owed, burned everything. There was also a big backlash from the church against the big rise in paganism and atheism that came during/after the plague. As for central authority resisting Mongols: See China.