On Mon, 2006-02-20 at 23:01 +0100, David Kastrup wrote:
By this logic,
locking my doors is immoral because it diminishes
people's freedom to roam around my house.
Those people have not paid for access to your house. Purchasers of
proprietary software _have_ paid for access to the software.
They have paid for access to the software under the terms of the license
- if they didn't like it they could have used a different program.
Lee