Subj : Re: GNU Public Licences Revisited (again)
To   : comp.programming
From : Antoon Pardon
Date : Mon Sep 19 2005 01:25 pm

Op 2005-09-16, Chris Sonnack schreef <Chris@Sonnack.com>:
> 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.

How does that differ from me, just brewing my own?

As far as I understand, me brewing my own or me copying yours, leave
you in exactly the same situation. You don't have any less in either
situation. So it seems that by this logic, me brewing my own would
be stealing from you too.

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Antoon Pardon

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