[linux-audio-user] Re: Free Software vs. Open Source: Where do *you* stand?

[Jan Depner]

On Mon, 2006-02-20 at 17:28 -0500, Lee Revell wrote:
> On Mon, 2006-02-20 at 23:12 +0100, Björn Lindström wrote:
> > Lee Revell <rlrevell at joe-job.com>:
> > 
> > > Depending on how much more advanced your application is than that of
> > > your competition, open sourcing an app could have huge costs.
> > 
> > If you had read another three lines, you'd have seen I already
> > answered that:
> > 
> > > On Mon, 2006-02-20 at 22:53 +0100, Björn Lindström wrote:
> > >
> > >> (I'm not counting the hypothetical cost of lost sales of copyright
> > >> licenses, which as I pointed out are an arbitrary monopoly, not a
> > >> moral right.)
> > 
> 
> Sorry, I was discussing the real world...
> 

    ROTFLMAO!  Exactly.  Arbitrary monopoly my left ventricle.  Why do
people think they should have rights to software that I write unless I
give them those rights.  Let's carry this inane argument to it's logical
(or illogical) conclusion.  Somehow he thinks that if I write a piece of
code he should be able to do anything he wants with it even if I don't
want to release it under a license he agrees with.  So, using the same
twisted logic, he should be able to do anything he wants with a song
that I write as well.  How about a painting?  A poem?  A novel?  All of
these have similar content.  They can be copied without removing the
original from my possession.  Does that make it ethical?  Moral?  Legal?
I think not.

-- 
Jan 'Evil Twin' Depner
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