Re: Bitkeeper outrage, old and new

From: Henning P. Schmiedehausen (hps@intermeta.de)
Date: Tue Oct 22 2002 - 15:24:33 EST

Roman Zippel <zippel@linux-m68k.org> writes:

>Hi,

>On Mon, 21 Oct 2002, Murray J. Root wrote:

>> It's a simple concept. I produced it, it's mine until I say otherwise.
>> You grant other laborers the right to profit from their labors, do you
>> not?

>Software isn't a product like others, once you've written it, you can
>reproduce it indefinitely with almost no further costs. Profit is defined

Not if you can tie it to some "not indefinitely at no further costs
reproducable" item. E.g. Hardware. E.g. a serial number in hardware or
an encryption key.

<div sarcasm="true">
What? what? Sounds familiar? Maybe someone else came
to the same conclusions?
</div>

        Regards
                Henning 

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