How to force a GPL (Score 1)

Q: "How can companies like Sega be convinced that products that don't make them money anymore should be made GPL?" A: All advocates of open-source should pool their funds. With those funds they purchase Sega, and as owners of the copyright for old ROMs, release them under the GPL. Then they sell Sega. If the ROMS really did have no commercial value, the resale value of Sega should be the same as the purchase price, and the cost to those involved would be nothing. So why won't this work ? Transaction costs are too high. There may be millions of socially conscious open source advocates out there, willing to lend $100 for the temporary ownership of Sega, but it's not practical to collect those funds and then to return proceeds from the sale of the company. One outgrowth of a convenient and inexpensive payment system will be social reform by corporate takeover. Buy the company, change the rules, and sell the company back again. The financial loss of lenders represents the social cost of their cause.