A person that I deeply respect and who is very know in Latvian IT society recently said that he often uses a quote of mine in his presentations. I completely forgot that I ever said that, but it sounds very much like what I would say, so I wanted to write it down so that I do not forget about it again:
90% of the people do not understand copyright, the other 10% simply ignore it.
Heh, I must have been optimistic. There is no way that so many people actually understand copyright.
Note: most Debian Developers and FLOSS developers in general are an exception to this rule, but sadly comprise such a small percentage of the population that it means very little from a public policy perspective.

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Great quote. If you have no objections I would like to use it for my slides on this topic (with correct attribution).
Sure, I’ll be glad if you will.
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