Re: GNU Public Licences Revisited (again)

Gerry Quinn wrote:
In article <VO0Qe.4581$R5.910@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, david.golden@xxxxxxxxxxxxx says...

Randy Howard wrote:


In your loose analogy, Ford, GM, BMW, etc. would be
the one complaining about the copy of the car, not you.

Hey, so do music distribution monopoly holders now that their monopolies
are unenforceable.


It's amusing how quickly these anti-IP types so quickly turn from their specious moralistic claims to the threat of force. 

The parallels with Communism again appear. Communism wouldn't work
in parallel with capitalism, because people would choose the capitalist
system, so capitalism had to be abolished as bad in order to give
communism a fair chance to work.

Now we have freeware/openware that exists with no real conflict with paidware,
but the free/openware isn't taking over. So paidware needs elimination by
the "software communists", but how to do that in a free society were the
copyright law exists? Simple. Overwhelm the copyright holders with untraceable
theft. To be fair, Mr. Stallman didn't come up with that idea, but he
certainly preaches it, by advocating that "theft" be reclassified as "sharing",
as in many places in the GNU web page diatribes.

Of course, the kids who pool their money, then buy a CD, and make a copy for
each of the friends who participated don't know or care about Mr. Stallman.
The "sharing" justification simply exists as a convenient excuse for behavior
people are going to engage in in any case. A more direct example of the point
here would be a GNU advocate contributing cracks or warez to the web
specifically to undermine paid software, which I personally doubt happens much,
if at all. The cracks and warez are created and contributed by kids very much
out of any particular political movement.


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