🚀 go-pugleaf

mib@geech.gnu.ai.mit.edu (Michael I Bushnell) writes:
> In article <gq0meB16w164w@mantis.co.uk> mathew@mantis.co.uk (en font terrible
>    >                    Do I get to make whatever use I can of the
>    > information I so obtain?
> 
>    Yes, although obviously you can't copy any bits of it which are copyright
>    material.
> 
> Ah.  So we *did* cover that.  Well, the whole point is that there
> isn't any "although obviously" with a plumber.  I can take *absolutely
> everything* I learn from the plumber and use it.  With copyrighted
> software, I cannot.

Right, but reading the software source is equivalent to letting you 
sift through the plumber's brain. It's looking at the knowledge and 
instructions which allow the agent (plumber or software package) to 
perform its task. The plumber won't let you do that, so by your own 
argument presumably there isn't a free market in plumbing.


mathew
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