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> side step copyright protections

So, are you saying people should only obey the laws they agree with when those people feel they're morally justified higher than those who voted for the laws in the first place, because it's your opinion to do so or did I not grok what you are saying you support?



> So, are you saying people should only obey the laws

Depends on what the law is.

Also, this may not even be illegal. Maybe this is just a legal loophole, and people are obeying the law.

In which case I am very happy that Microsoft found a completely legal loophole that will cause more code to be shared.

So by " side step copyright protections", we could just say that this is a completely legal loophole that has the effect of allowing more code to be shared but does not overrule other laws.

Which I think is good!




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