🚀 go-pugleaf

mib@geech.gnu.ai.mit.edu (Michael I Bushnell) writes:

|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.  As a result, there is a free market in plumbing,
|and not in software.

I think the difference here is that by copying software, you instantly
and permanently gain all the functionality of that software. It'd be
like the first time a plumber comes by, you can learn his entire
trade. Trying to get paid as a plumber wouldn't be nearly as viable if
everyone had equal plumbing skills.

Don't you love analogies? I think I should get $5 for every bad
analogy on Usenet :).

Sean
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