The free software and open-source movement demonstrates that copyleft licensing (requiring derivative works to remain open) can produce robust, professional-quality software (GNU/Linux, Apache) competing with proprietary software, showing that intellectual property extremism is not necessary for innovation.

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Lawrence Lessig

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There are many important companies that depend fundamentally upon open source and free software, IBM being the most prominent.
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