Subj : Re: GNU Public Licences Revisited (again)
To   : comp.programming
From : lilburne
Date : Wed Sep 21 2005 10:32 am

Antoon Pardon wrote:

> 
> 
> No it isn't. Your work wasn't stolen. You still have the knowledge
> of your own recipe, so nothing was taken from you.
> 
> 
> 
> No, information is not something that can be owned. 
> 
> 
> I didn't claim that it is freely shared. Nobody can be forced to
> share what he knows. I claimed you can't treat it as property.
> 
> If property is handed from one person to an other, the original
> owner looses the property (although he can get something in exchange).
> If information is handed from one person to an other, that information
> is not lost to the first person.
> 

See here is the Marxism, the absolute refusal to acknowledge that 
anything has any value other other than the material.

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