As cwebber says: https://dustycloud.org/blog/why-i-am-pro-gpl/

https://www.todayifoundout.com/index.php/2016/08/history-pas...

There might be something to your analogy if a crash in Boise caused everyone in town to come down with a plane to the head, but that’s not how that works so it’s kind of apples to oranges.

https://youtu.be/YmOVoIpaPrc

(A short story about how cheating the user with exorbitant prices results in the exit of your audience.)

The gp was speaking about the purpose behind creating copyright, which is to produce the maximum number of works, while you were looking at the results to the author, the goals of recognition and payment.

Only specific representations are protected: non-derivative readaptations are generally permitted (the thorny issue is whether it is derivative or not: c.f. Disney vs Pixar). Additionally, the US specifically avoids guaranteeing profits for works by endorsing “sweat-of-the-brow” or effort-based value judgements. Doing otherwise is an implicit validation of communism: to each according to their effort, which is counter to the distribution policy under capitalism.

https://time.com/5169210/us-gun-control-laws-history-timelin...

The EFF's legal challenge was essentially that if crypto is a munition, then this printed book explaining the crypto is also at least as much of a munition, if not more so. They gave the judge the choice between deciding that a printed book is some sort of deadly tool, or deciding that crypto wasn't conceptually a munition. Strangely, the judge ruled in the EFF's favor.

Replace show-trailing-whitespace with automatically-deleting-whitespace, though.

  (defun x/delete-whitespace ()
    (unless (or (string= major-mode 'diff-mode)
                (string= major-mode 'hexl-mode))
      (delete-trailing-whitespace)))

  (add-hook 'before-save-hook 'x/delete-whitespace)