Alexander Terekhov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > 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.
Expression _is_ distilled knowledge. If it weren't for the detailedly versed expression of Homer's Ilias and Odyssey, making it possible to preserve it over hundreds of years in oral tradition, a lot of knowledge about ancient Greek myths and Gods would not have survived. In a similar vein, there is no more concise and exact expression of knowledge in computing rather than the actual algorithm cast into computer code. >> by pretending that he was using "profit" in your narrow sense. > > It's market economy sense, stupid. Alexander is again running out of arguments and needs to resort to name-calling. > Release your stuff into the public domain so that the whole society > can profit from it But the whole society _can_ profit from it. As long as it reciprocates. The freeloaders trying to exploit the stuff by using it for something which _can't_ be shared are left out. > (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. You'll find that all civilized systems have regulations in place that make sure that antisocial activities are not rewarded. -- David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum _______________________________________________ gnu-misc-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnu-misc-discuss
