Subj : Re: GNU Public Licences Revisited (again) To : comp.programming From : Steve O'Hara-Smith Date : Mon Sep 19 2005 03:13 pm On 19 Sep 2005 12:25:13 GMT Antoon Pardon wrote: > Op 2005-09-16, Chris Sonnack schreef : > > 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? I think the key factor here is the recipe - assume that Chris has a particularly good recipe for beer and is making a living brewing beer to that recipe. > 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 If you are copying - ie. brewing to the same recipe then you are depriving Chris of exclusivity. If you are brewing your own beer to a different recipe then that is fine. -- C:>WIN | Directable Mirror Arrays The computer obeys and wins. | A better way to focus the sun You lose and Bill collects. | licences available see | http://www.sohara.org/ .