Subj : Re: GNU Public Licences Revisited (again)
To   : comp.programming
From : Gerry Quinn
Date : Tue Aug 30 2005 12:21 pm

In article <YDUQe.4688$R5.946@news.indigo.ie>, 
david.golden@oceanfree.net says...
> 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."

And when everyone owns something, nobody owns it.  Therefore the 
definitions are essentially identical, and it is those who make a 
distinction who are confused.

- Gerry Quinn

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