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OK, that's your view. The "all information is public" view is not the law and will never be the law. But you do you.

> we should seek solutions that provide for authors while also allowing

Weasel words. We should seek solutions that let us fly airplanes without having to pass that bothersome test, too.

> "all information is public"

Published works, not "all information". It's up to society to decide if we want to prioritize publishers or humanity. I don't believe our restrictive legal regime will persist around the world in perpetuity. It is too harmful to humanity, and someone will break ranks with "harmonization" even if the USA does not.

OK. You keep hoping, hear?

Really don't love your condescension in this thread. It makes this place worse when people talk like that.

Anyway I am not hoping, I am busting my ass in open source to contribute to the body of knowledge around what makes open information work.

Open source is something different. Of course, if you're hoping to confiscate Oracle or Mathematica source by force of law, that IS theft. If you're creating new bodies of code, or even encouraging proprietary code owners to open-source their stuff, I think that's great.

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