>... should not the producer/owner of an item/piece of software get to decide the price others must pay in order to obtain it?
... should not the purchaser/owner of an item/piece of software get to decide what they want to do with it after they have purchased it?
No, in fact, Microsoft (and other software vendors, including (amusingly enough) RMS and the FSF) rely on copyright law and/or contract law to restrict what the buyer can do. Otherwise I could (on the one hand) buy a copy of MS Office XYZ, and then burn enough copies to give out to the trick-or-treaters on Haloween, or (on the other hand) sell my new closed source office suite, based on all the code I took from KDE.
No, in fact, it's not a truly free economy, and most of the people don't really want it to be. Deal with it.
Slashdot Mirror
> ... should not the producer/owner of an item/piece of software get to decide the price others must pay in order to obtain it?
... should not the purchaser/owner of an item/piece of software get to decide what they want to do with it after they have purchased it?
No, in fact, Microsoft (and other software vendors, including (amusingly enough) RMS and the FSF) rely on copyright law and/or contract law to restrict what the buyer can do. Otherwise I could (on the one hand) buy a copy of MS Office XYZ, and then burn enough copies to give out to the trick-or-treaters on Haloween, or (on the other hand) sell my new closed source office suite, based on all the code I took from KDE.
No, in fact, it's not a truly free economy, and most of the people don't really want it to be. Deal with it.
ALuddy
> Well, here are some of the things I use my laptop for:
> 3. Read Slashdot while taking a dump (Thanks to 802.11 wireless networking).
Wow! Full duplex, with simultaneous upload and download! We are impressed. 8{)}