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Originally Posted by Ralph Sir Edward
I've made a good living (on average) writing COBOL code for Mainframe computers for big companies. I never got a copyright for any of it. Strictly work for hire...
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Work for hire. Of course, that's one of the solutions. Authors can write free books as advertisement of their writing ability. Then folks will pay them to write books.
Oh wait. In this copyright free world, the corporations could not own the code you wrote for them. You would be free to take the code you wrote for pay, and then offer it for sale to any other corporation.
We have this with opensource. But the truth behind modern opensource is that most of the major projects are actually sponsored by corporations. Oracle, IBM, HP, even Microsoft contribute billions of dollars into open source. And yet those billions of dollars come from profits from their proprietary software. There won't be any such concept in this world.
How many billions of dollars is Microsoft going to continue pumping into Windows when windows too will become freely available for copying?
Lee