Do whatever it is that you can't not do.
At the end of Mark Pilgrim's auto-bio-biblio-historical-ography, he mentions:
Yesterday, I found this nestled in a comment at the end of the XML source of Dive Into Python:
As I write this, the year is 2000, and the Internet is a battleground of intellectual property disputes. Some people would like you to believe that, without proper financial incentives, music, literature, and computer software would disappear. After all, who would make music if they can't make money on it? Who would write? Who would program? I know the answer. The answer is that musicians will make music, not because they can make money, but because musicians are the people who can't not make music. Writers will write because they can't not write. I've been programming for 16 years, writing free software for 8. I can't imagine not doing this. If you can imagine yourself not doing what you're doing, do something else. Do whatever it is that you can't not do.
Indeed, as Chevron used to say ... "People Do".
Copyright and patent laws (especially the absurd "intellectual property"-style
patents, like those for software or business processes)
no longer serve to further innovation.
Instead, they merely serve to further the concentration of power and
money into the hands of those who run corporations. It's time to abolish software patents,
patents on business processes, and scale the copyright laws back to their original
time frames.
I think it's also time to drop the fantasy wherein the law treats a corporation
as if it were some kind of individual, but that's a rant for a different day.
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