Subj : Re: GNU Public Licences Revisited (again) To : comp.programming From : David Golden Date : Tue Aug 30 2005 10:19 am I wrote: >> Free markets for things notionally property do... >> If we don't consider software to be property in >> the first place, that's irrelevant. Gerry Quinn wrote: > But we do, apart from the software communists. Actually, I think you might be persistently confusing "collective ownership" [1] and "no ownership" [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communism "Communism is a movement based on the principle of communal ownership of all property." .