Their argument was obviously not that copyright should not
be protected. Instead, they argued, any protection should not do more
harm than good.
+<indexterm><primary>Intel</primary></indexterm>
</para>
<para>
There is one more obvious way in which this war has harmed
history of the Progress Clause. And of course, there was a new brief
by Eagle Forum, repeating and strengthening its arguments.
<indexterm><primary>GNU/Linux operating system</primary></indexterm>
+<indexterm><primary>Intel</primary></indexterm>
<indexterm><primary>Linux operating system</primary></indexterm>
<indexterm><primary>Eagle Forum</primary></indexterm>
</para>
included the Global Positioning System, which Ronald Reagan set free
in the early 1980s. And it included "open source and free software."
<indexterm><primary>academic journals</primary></indexterm>
+<indexterm><primary>IBM</primary></indexterm>
<indexterm><primary>PLoS (Public Library of Science)</primary></indexterm>
</para>
<para>
May 2001), available at
<ulink url="http://free-culture.cc/notes/">link #63</ulink>.
</para></footnote>
+<indexterm><primary>IBM</primary></indexterm>
<indexterm><primary>"copyleft" licenses</primary></indexterm>
<indexterm><primary>GNU/Linux operating system</primary></indexterm>
<indexterm><primary>Linux operating system</primary></indexterm>
binaries— was free. You couldn't run a program written for a
Data General machine on an IBM machine, so Data General and IBM didn't
care much about controlling their software.
+<indexterm><primary>IBM</primary></indexterm>
</para>
<indexterm><primary>Stallman, Richard</primary></indexterm>
<para>