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Stephen Downes

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The case against strong protection of intellectual property expressed by means of yet another analogy: wedding pictures. "We have a choice. We can treat the professional photographer's artistic work as proprietary intellectual property not to be meddled with. Or we can treat such work in an Open Source manner, allowing and expecting the "source" to change and be redistributed. This choice won't be made on moral or personal grounds. It will be made for pragmatic, business reasons."

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