Editing Bad copy problem

The '''bad copy problem''' occurs when [[Consumerium]]'s own code, data, support groups or community of trusting users enable services which compete with the [[Consumerium Services]].  It is made much worse when the entity, i.e. the [[Consumerium Governance Organization]], set up to project a certain set of values, does not have the power under the [[Consumerium License]] to stop it.

Various expressions of the bad copy problem are part of several [[worst cases]].  

To some degree this has already happened to [[free software]] in several ways:
#[[open source]] is to a degree a "bad copy" of the free software concept that lures in many contributors who would otherwise contribute to free software - at least, according to [[Richard Stallman]] they would otherwise contribute!  There is no independent evidence that this is true outside his [[ideology]].
#open source licenses themselves allow developers to extend and "protect" their extensions under [[patent]] law or independent [[copyright]], unlike in free software licenses
#the extreme variety of versions of operating systems and file systems like [[Linux]] makes it impossibly difficult to concentrate maintenance and [[usability]] effort, making for an OS that is hard for the ordinary user to maintain due to sheer dilution and confusion
#[[Richard Stallman]] himself has objected to Linux incorporating many GNU utilities and not calling itself "GNU Linux", but the [[GPL]] never asked for this nor applied any [[trademark]] or other instrument that would make this a condition of re-use of those utilities;  Presumably, having ''one'' "GNU Linux" would make it easier to tell the best version(s) from dozens of nasty variants.

It's also happened to [[wiki code]].  There are a huge number of versions that seem to exist for no particular reason other than that someone wanted to write a wiki  (see [[self-interested fork problem]]).  This drastically dilutes the effort available to make any of them of any use.