Subj : Re: GNU Public Licences Revisited (again) To : comp.programming From : Scott Moore Date : Sun Aug 28 2005 11:02 am Gerry Quinn wrote: > In article , > david.golden@oceanfree.net says... > >>Randy Howard wrote: >> >> >>> In your loose analogy, Ford, GM, BMW, etc. would be >>>the one complaining about the copy of the car, not you. >> >>Hey, so do music distribution monopoly holders now that their monopolies >>are unenforceable. > > > It's amusing how quickly these anti-IP types so quickly turn from their > specious moralistic claims to the threat of force. The parallels with Communism again appear. Communism wouldn't work in parallel with capitalism, because people would choose the capitalist system, so capitalism had to be abolished as bad in order to give communism a fair chance to work. Now we have freeware/openware that exists with no real conflict with paidware, but the free/openware isn't taking over. So paidware needs elimination by the "software communists", but how to do that in a free society were the copyright law exists? Simple. Overwhelm the copyright holders with untraceable theft. To be fair, Mr. Stallman didn't come up with that idea, but he certainly preaches it, by advocating that "theft" be reclassified as "sharing", as in many places in the GNU web page diatribes. Of course, the kids who pool their money, then buy a CD, and make a copy for each of the friends who participated don't know or care about Mr. Stallman. The "sharing" justification simply exists as a convenient excuse for behavior people are going to engage in in any case. A more direct example of the point here would be a GNU advocate contributing cracks or warez to the web specifically to undermine paid software, which I personally doubt happens much, if at all. The cracks and warez are created and contributed by kids very much out of any particular political movement. -- Samiam is Scott A. Moore Personal web site: http:/www.moorecad.com/scott My electronics engineering consulting site: http://www.moorecad.com ISO 7185 Standard Pascal web site: http://www.moorecad.com/standardpascal Classic Basic Games web site: http://www.moorecad.com/classicbasic The IP Pascal web site, a high performance, highly portable ISO 7185 Pascal compiler system: http://www.moorecad.com/ippas Good does not always win. But good is more patient. .