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In article <26633@agate.BERKELEY.EDU>, mwm@eris.berkeley.edu (Mike (I'll think of something yet) Meyer) writes:
> That's an absurd analogy. Try this one for size: a fellow invents a
> new type of hammer, and allows anyone to use it to build houses so
> long as they give away the plans for the house.

Since there are people who make their living designing and selling plans
for houses, this is a good analogy. It's an argument against the FSF
copyleft, though.

> <Further, if we publicize the PD software enough, few people will
   [ buy the commercial ripoff ]

> Um, who's going to pay for that publicity?

The same people who, through the goodness of their hearts, will pay for
the lawyers to protect copylefts and for the development of copylefted
software.

Oh, and computer and trade magazines. i.e., there are MORE resources
available to publicise PD software than to protect FSFware.
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