Microsoft Windows, the Chinese used the free GNU/Linux operating
system, then these Chinese users would not eventually be buying
Microsoft. Without piracy, then, Microsoft would lose.
+<indexterm><primary>Linux operating system</primary></indexterm>
+<indexterm>
+<primary>Microsoft</primary>
+<secondary>Windows operating system of</secondary>
+</indexterm>
<indexterm><primary>Windows</primary></indexterm>
</para>
<para>
what—at least ordinarily. And if the law properly balances the
rights of the copyright owner with the rights of access, then
violating the law is still wrong.
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</para>
<para>
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products. This job usually falls to outside innovators, who
reassemble existing technology in inventive ways. For a discussion of
Christensen's ideas, see Lawrence Lessig, <citetitle>Future</citetitle>, 89–92, 139.
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<indexterm><primary>Christensen, Clayton M.</primary></indexterm>
</para></footnote>), Shawn Fanning and crew had simply
put together components that had been developed independently.
exhaustive and uncontroverted brief by the world's experts in the
history of the Progress Clause. And of course, there was a new brief
by Eagle Forum, repeating and strengthening its arguments.
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<indexterm><primary>Eagle Forum</primary></indexterm>
</para>
<para>
May 2001), available at
<ulink url="http://free-culture.cc/notes/">link #63</ulink>.
</para></footnote>
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</para>
<para>
More important for our purposes, to support "open source and free
system, so that at least a strain of free software would survive. That
was the birth of the GNU project, into which Linus Torvalds's "Linux"
kernel was added to produce the GNU/Linux operating system.
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</para>
<para>
Stallman's technique was to use copyright law to build a world of