Subj : Re: GNU Public Licences Revisited (again)
To   : comp.programming
From : David Golden
Date : Fri Sep 23 2005 07:02 pm

> The reason: the information that is 'wining'

What constitutes winning is defined by the prize-givers and
there mightn't be any willing prize givers for winning a particular
race, particularly not ones over previously mapped territory.

If prize-givers want to incentivise creation of the
information of a map of a safe route through the obstacle course that
they can use too (since the prize givers are racers too and later races
from A to C *might* be faster if a route A to B and a route B to C are
known), they might award a prize to the first person to complete the
race, but there's no reason for the prize givers to jump to the prize
being to give the prize winner a monopoly on use of that route by
racers in the next 70 races.

But the reason both analogies are somewhat strained (mine less
so, of course) is because you're trying to treat something
that isn't a zero-sum game or a race with winners and losers as
something that is.

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