Control over the use of one's ideas really constitutes control over other people's lives; and it is usually used to make their lives more difficult.

Restricting copying is not the only basis for business in software. It is the most common basis because it brings in the most money. If it were prohibited, or …

The patent system was established to encourage inventors to disclose the details of their inventions. Its purpose was to help society rather than to help inven…

Extracting money from users of a program by restricting their use of it is destructive because the restrictions reduce the amount and the ways that the program…