Subj : Re: GNU Public Licences Revisited (again) To : comp.programming From : Antoon Pardon Date : Thu Sep 22 2005 07:40 am Op 2005-09-21, lilburne schreef : > > > Antoon Pardon wrote: > >> 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. >> > > Nope! Those are your words and they are derived from Marxism. Yes you are putting wordt in my mouth. That information can't be treated as property doesn't imply information has no value, unless you think only property has value. I don't think that. You may think so and from your reaction I suspect you indeed do, but I'm not bound by your ideas. -- Antoon Pardon .