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Google owes $338.7 mln in Chromecast patent case, US jury says
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Most open source software also relies on copyright. The GPL doesn’t work without it.
Obviously you would need a complete overhaul of the system.
That's why I'm not in favor of completely abolishing copyright. It should protect for a much shorter time, like 10 years, though. For example, companies would be free to use a ten years old Linux version (3.10 would be the newest affected version) and do whatever they want with it, but for newer ones the GPL protections would still apply.
I'm more radical, I'm for removing copyright and forced open source.