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So what? The only rights are individual rights. Corporate rights are a fiction of judicial activism in the same vein as the "constitutional right to an abortion under the 4th amendment." I happen to be pro-choice, but let's call a spade a spade, neither exist in our constitution.

And who owns corporations? Individuals.

And if you believe that individuals cannot organize a corporation that has certain constitutional protections (such as copyright, property ownership, patents, etc.), then, to be consistent, you must believe that the GPL (which is a collectively-held, not individually-held) copyright, is invalid and not protected by US law. If not, please explain why not.

I never said that corporations cannot and should not be given legal priveleges by the states and federal government. I do not believe that corporate entities of any kind should receive protection as individuals. The reason that we have so much corruption in politics is that corporations whether they be companies, unions or other types have a legal right to give money and be active in politics. Just one example of why I don't want them to receive individual constitutional rights.

And you are mistaken about the GPL code. It is individually owned. Linus Torvalds could at any time remove his contributions from the Linux source tree, move the code to the BSD license and build a new Linux kernel under the BSD license. You retain the copyright to your code, but you agree to let others use it under the GPL. You are free to take your own code and dual license it. That's what TrollTech does with QT. They could legally take out outside contributions to the GPL code and still make releases that are proprietary under another license.

I think there is definitely a new Free Republic policy of moving tech articles to the General Interest forum rather than the main forum. I posted a genuine news/activism story about Osama Bin Laden and WMD and that stayed in the
main forum however all the Linux/GPL stories I post wind up here in the General Interest forum. Therefore I think we should do the AMs a favor and post tech stories to the General Interest forum from now on out so that they won't constantly have to re direct them here and see us as neusenses.

Actually I like the General Interest forum better for these stories anyway because it lets me use the topics list to describe Linux as a CONSPIRACY rather than simply crime and corruption. ;-).