Subj : Re: GNU Public Licences Revisited (again) To : comp.programming From : Gerry Quinn Date : Tue Aug 30 2005 12:01 pm In article , david.golden@oceanfree.net says... > > > I don't believe you want to leave anything more than a skeletal and > > effectively useless remnant of IP, rather as communist states left a > > skeletal and effectively useless pretence of freedom. > > Well, whatever. I could play that game too: > > "I don't believe you want to leave any more than a skeletal and > effectively useless remnant of physical property, rather as communist > states left a skeletal and effectively useless pretence of freedom" Except that you would have no good argument on your side. I pointed out in another post an example of what I meant. > (modulo Serge Skorokhodov's concerns about your understanding (and mine > own is likely no better) about actual freedoms in the USSR under its > nominally communist rule, I'm just illustrating the emptiness of your > statement) What you call "nominal communism" is what you get when communism is implemented. Haven't we seen enough mass slaughter in its name to stop making propaganda for another attempt? - Gerry Quinn .