Subj : Re: GNU Public Licences Revisited (again)
To   : comp.programming
From : Chris Sonnack
Date : Fri Sep 16 2005 01:44 pm

David Golden writes:

> If beer is taken, less beer remains. Beer number conservation. If
> a copy of a beer is taken, that's more beer in the world. Beer number
> nonconservation.

If I have created the beer and am selling it to feed my family and you
copy it rather than buy it, you are *stealing* from me.  You are actively
taking food from my family.

This all has nothing to do with freedom of information patterns.
It has to do with stealing an author's work.

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