Copyleft is the action of owning content, but not charging for others to use it. Crowd Sourcing is the ability to create the base for something, but letting others add on to it so it can become amazing.

An example of a copyleft and crowd sourced  object is the Linux OS. It was created by a man who wanted everyone to have a great OS, but didn’t want to deal with the issues of paying for too much. He created the base product of Linux, but people continue to add and tweak it. Now, I’m not saying it’s perfect, but it is the ideal. There needs to be a thing where people can freely play with objects and make it their own. It’s how people find what they want to do in life. Now I’m decently good at computers, but a lot of people aren’t. This is where the real issue of Linux comes in: It’s not very simple to use. People would get confused and upset if they found something other than the windows or mac OS on their computer. It’s very unfamiliar and complicated to most. I wish people could learn how to just play around with the system, but I understand why they don’t try. They don’t want to break the computer completely (although you really can’t unless you hit it with a hammer or something), and then pay for it to get fixed. Maybe if we had classes that explained how computer technology works, we wouldn’t have this problem? But most people aren’t interested in that kind of stuff and get bored of it easily.

Anyways, if we all were open to the idea of adding and taking, free or charge or rude opinions, I think we would make this a better place for all of us.