Subj : Re: GNU Public Licences Revisited (again)
To   : comp.programming
From : Gerry Quinn
Date : Thu Sep 22 2005 09:29 am

In article <u0lYe.15919$R5.1144@news.indigo.ie>, 
david.golden@oceanfree.net says...

> > Given that without restrictions, people have few 
> > incentives to pay an author.
> 
> They only really need one, desire for work by the author. 

The work is already there - they just need a copy.  Why bother paying 
extra so he might write something they might like, sometime?

> > But they have been created, 
 
> So was slave ownership, so were colonial trade monopolies. 

And so are private homes, and so are bicycles.  All are irrelevant to 
your argument about the impossibility of expropriating something that 
doesn't exist.  

[Moaning about terminology deleted.]

> > But it's beside the point, which is that the value of 
> > IP is not stored in a location but distributed.
> 
> Value? Stored??? - Please see http://www.mises.org/story/1349 again.

Are you agreeing with me, or are you claiming that value is stored in a 
location?

- Gerry Quinn

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