Richard Tobin wrote: > > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, > Alexander Terekhov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >> There seems to be a substantial profit for the "buyer" here: they get > >> a program for nothing. > > >I was talking about a profit for seller > > You were pretending to answer David Kastrup's very reasonable comment: > > Well, that is what is called civilization and culture. Not having to > reinvent the wheel, but profiting from the knowledge created by > others.
Yeah, very reasonable. As if copyright is about knowledge, and not expression. > > by pretending that he was using "profit" in your narrow sense. It's market economy sense, stupid. Release your stuff into the public domain so that the whole society can profit from it (instead of removing economic incentive to create derivative works by making profit in a free market by trading derivative works) and I'd have no problem with that. That is what is called civilization. See also section 3 Economics here: http://www.charvolant.org/~doug/gpl/gpl.pdf regards, alexander. _______________________________________________ gnu-misc-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnu-misc-discuss
