Subj : Re: GNU Public Licences Revisited (again)
To   : comp.programming
From : Chris Sonnack
Date : Mon Aug 29 2005 10:45 pm

Gerry Quinn writes:

>> If a dog could look at another dog with another bone, and have a copy of
>> that bone, just by looking at it, without depriving the other dog of
>> the bone, like with information...  most people I know (admittedly I'm
>> in Europe) agree the dog who doesn't want dogs to have copies of bones
>> is just a dick.
> 
> You are tacitly assuming that the only value of the bone to the dog is 
> the pleasure he will get from chewing it.
> 
> Perhaps he searched far and wide to find an exclusive bone to present 
> to his lady love - if any dog can have an instant copy, then this dog 
> is likely be deprived of his reward.  He might as well not have 
> searched at all.

Now there's an analogy you can chew on!

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