Subj : Re: GNU Public Licences Revisited (again) To : comp.programming From : Antoon Pardon Date : Wed Sep 21 2005 10:31 am Op 2005-09-21, lilburne schreef : > 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. You are putting words in my mouth. -- Antoon Pardon .