Re: [Trisquel-users] A letter from Canada Type, and freedom 1

[onpon4]

Well, what if someone's only skill was being a scribe? How horrible that he  
can't make money anymore because of printing, and he commits suicide because  
he can't find another way to make money.

It's not a very close analogy (scribes became obsolete, which doesn't apply  
to programming at all), but I think you get the point. Assuming it somehow  
becomes impossible to make a decent amount of money from programming  
(doubtful, mind you, because there are plenty of ways to make money from free  
software development), the programmers can find another way to make money,  
just like scribes did. That was the point ahj was making (except ahj didn't  
mention scribes). There is no reason for us to tolerate something unethical  
(forbidding sharing) for the purpose of giving someone an artificial method  
of making money.