On 05/09/10 04:49, Paul Rubin wrote: <cut>
As I read it, he is saying that when someone releases free software, they have "for all intends and purposes lost control over its use", so they "should have made peace with the fact" and surrender gracefully. I'm asking why he doesn't think Microsoft has lost control the same way.
Microsoft has indeed lost control of it in the same way, it is just because we here in the 'western' world spend huge amount of money on prosecuting and bringing to 'justice' does who, whether for commercial purposes or otherwise, make a copy of a piece of code. Think about it, it is not stealing, the original is still there and no further resources where needed from the original developer.
What I am saying is that all this license crap is only needed because we are used to a commercial environment where we can repeatedly profit from the same work already done.
I am not saying that you should not profit, of course you should otherwise there is no interest in making it in the first place.
What I am saying is that we as developers should encourage pay for work and not pay for code. This will, as I believe it, keep everything much more healthy and balanced. At least we can cut all the crap of software patents and copyrights.
For those who say it can't be done, sure it can, all you have to do is nothing, it takes effort to enforce policies.
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