Subj : Re: GNU Public Licences Revisited (again)
To   : comp.programming
From : Gerry Quinn
Date : Thu Sep 08 2005 12:41 pm

In article <1iSTe.13994$R5.1039@news.indigo.ie>, 
david.golden@oceanfree.net says...

> > 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.  

The whole point of upholding property rights is to defend the risk 
takers - those who invest in R&D, development, planting crops etc. - 
from the 'risk averse' parasites who want to stand aside and suck up 
the benefits of what they have done nothing to create.

- Gerry Quinn

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