Subj : Re: GNU Public Licences Revisited (again)
To   : comp.programming
From : lilburne
Date : Mon Sep 19 2005 01:22 pm



Gerry Quinn wrote:
> In article <84dXe.15682$R5.1030@news.indigo.ie>, 
> david.golden@oceanfree.net says...
> 
>>Gerry Quinn wrote:
>>
>>
>>>The conclusion that there is no need to devise a property system does
>>>not follow at all from the assertion that information is 'non-
>>>rivalrous' in the specific sense that it can be copied with very low
>>>expenditure of free energy.
>>
>>That's just NOT what non-rivalrous means!  Non-rivalrous does not mean
>>it can be copied with very low expenditure of free energy, but that my
>>possession and use of a copy of some information does not prevent your
>>posession and use of your copy. 
> 
> 
> Sure, but that is why it fits that category.
> 

Our R&D expenditure in software development is $8,000,000 a year. I've 
seen no proposal where by that expenditure can be financed other than 
via software sales.

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