Subj : Re: GNU Public Licences Revisited (again)
To   : comp.programming
From : David Golden
Date : Thu Sep 08 2005 10:06 am

> Your ideas are still software communism, whatever you call 
> them.

Wasn't true the first time. Still isn't now. 

>> 1) A new drug would exist for the inventor too.
> 
> Black pustules - searing pain - coughing blood.  Must... invent...
> drug...

Well, maybe YOU are incapable of anticipating threats. Ounce of
prevention, pound of cure. 

> Unless it doesn't look 
> profitable, or if it poisons people - then the loss is all mine.

Sunk costs are sunk costs. The world doesn't owe you a shield from
R&D risk, that the risk-averse may unfairly compete with risk-takers.  
http://libertariannation.org/a/f31l1.html#4

> Must... spill... anthrax...

That is a replicating agent that would actively kill people, invading
and destroying physical property of their own bodies.

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