Is the free software philosophy compatible with libertarianism?

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Why wouldn't it?

>>61755866
Free Software Philosophy lines hard with the NAP seeing as it was telling companies to fuck off with their proprietary software.

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>>61755866
You can make it fit into any ideology you want. That's how you know it's truly free.

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>>61755866

>>61755866
well libertarianism could be a lot of things, not just its current iteration according to some in the US.
but i think it is compatible yes.

>>61755866

yes, enforcing intellectual property law is statism

requires a big brother nanny state to enforce at its worst, and a taxpayer funded legal infrastructure at least

IP law is anti-competitive and creates artificial scarcity and non-liquidity of information capital

>>61756971
This

>>61756971
Libertarians believe that protecting property is a legitimate role of the state.

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Making closed source software is the right of all free men. Imagine how autistic it would be to go to someone's house and refuse to eat a steak dinner they made for you unless they tell you the GPS coordinates of the farm, every meal the cow ate before it was butchered, the type of car used to transport it, the exact steps in how the meat was sliced, etc. because they "might have poisoned it".

>>61757009
>believing in the notion of intellectual property

>>61758441
You're a certain level of famous once there's not just images of you in newspapers, there's stock images of you in newspapers

>>61757009
physical property, sure.
intellectual property, as defined by american law, is a farce.

Well, /g/?

yep, nobody coerces you into using that license and a lot of libertarians don't like patents as they kill competiton

>>61758441
What kind of shithole you live if you can't track you foods origin?