On 2015-03-08 01:33 PM, John Cowan wrote:
Frankly, I have zero sympathy for Baystate's behavior. Bowers offered to
license his technology on commercial terms, and they told him they thought
they could do it themselves. They then licensed a copy of his work,
accepting in the process the
David Woolley scripsit:
You can buy a book (i.e. hardware consisting of paper and ink), but
you can't buy the novel that it contains (the author will not assign
copyright to you).
No, of course not. But when I buy the book, the first-sale right is
exhausted; when I buy proprietary software,
Thufir Hawat scripsit:
Does the same logic apply to widgets? If so, that would, potentially,
kill after-market car parts, which, if I'm not mistaken, are reverse
engineered from the original.
Cars and their parts are sold, not licensed. If purchasers of
proprietary software would insist on
Johnny A. Solbu scripsit:
Then you are mistaken. The copy was licenced, not sold. If you did
buy it, then it would become your property, and no longer Redhat's
property.
That copy was my property and not Red Hat's. They were of course free
to make other copies, as was I. Similarly, when I
David Woolley scripsit:
You didn't buy the software. You bought a piece of hardware with a
single copy.
By that definition, I don't buy books either, but that turns out not to
be the case.
Red Hat don't even have the right to sell most of Linux as people like
the FSF own it.
The FSF
On 10/03/15 23:53, John Cowan wrote:
You didn't buy the software. You bought a piece of hardware with a
single copy.
By that definition, I don't buy books either, but that turns out not to
be the case.
You can buy a book (i.e. hardware consisting of paper and ink), but you
can't buy the
On Tuesday 10. March 2015 17.55, co...@ccil.org wrote:
I think I've bought software exactly once, a boxed set of
Red Hat Linux back in 1999. All the rest has been licensed under
either a proprietary or an open-source license.
Then you are mistaken. The copy was licenced, not sold. If you did
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