So what you're saying, basically, is that if I write a piece of software all on my own, and decide to offer the program and the source to anyone who cares to have it, that I shouldn't be allowed to do it? It's my 'intellectual property', I should be able to do whatever the hell I like with it. If I want to give something that's mine away, then it's my desicion to do so.
Personally, I don't think it's right for companies to charge enormous amounts of money for software with thousands upon thousands of known bugs, but I don't try and make it illegal for them to do so because they created it, and they can do what they like with it.
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So what you're saying, basically, is that if I write a piece of software all on my own, and decide to offer the program and the source to anyone who cares to have it, that I shouldn't be allowed to do it? It's my 'intellectual property', I should be able to do whatever the hell I like with it. If I want to give something that's mine away, then it's my desicion to do so.
Personally, I don't think it's right for companies to charge enormous amounts of money for software with thousands upon thousands of known bugs, but I don't try and make it illegal for them to do so because they created it, and they can do what they like with it.