At 05:55 PM 17/05/2000 , Manish Jethani wrote:
>ANYone can take my code and do ANYthing with it. No one will be
>able to build proprietary s/w on it, because prop. s/w will not
>exist! ... copyright law will not exist in that case. No
>owners for s/w (in the _real_ sense).
Sound like academic idealism to me; referring to another thread about GNU,
the software enineers/programmers have stomachs to feed too! Even ESR's
"The Cathedral ..." makes a lot of references to "Maslow's Heirarchy of
Needs" (BTW, I think I am supposed to study that as part of the 6th Sem
Economics that is being forced down my throat :-) )
>If religion and law were to say that all s/w is public domain,
>then there wouldn't be a question of proprietary s/w.
Utopia - ou (not) + topos (place) - meaning "Nowhere" literally. An
imaginary place where everything is ideal and no evils are present
(although *hunger* isn't mentioned specifially in the definition.)
Sameer.
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