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In article <o2NaeB7w164w@mantis.co.uk> mathew@mantis.co.uk (en font terrible) writes:

   manis@cs.ubc.ca (Vincent Manis) writes:
   > In article <2990@tronsbox.xei.com> tron1@tronsbox.xei.com (Kenneth
   > Jamieson) writes: 
   > >	The purpose of the copyleft is to attempt to blackmail
   > >programmers into a particular political view.
   > 
   > Indeed, the purpose of proprietary software licencing is to attempt to
   > blackmail consumers into a particularly political view, namely that
   > money more properly belongs in the vendor's, rather than the consumer's,
   > pocket.

   I see.  So presumably the purpose of charging money for food is to attempt
   to blackmail consumers into a particular political view, namely that money
   more properly belongs in the vendor's pocket.

   Do you not believe in exchange of goods for money, then?

"Exchange"?  When I buy a copy of proprietary software the author
denies me the right to further exchange goods for money, but he
retains it for himself.

In a typical exchange, one party ends up with the goods, and the other
ends up with the money.  With software, one party ends up with the goods,
and the other ends up with the goods and the money.  Hardly seems fair, eh?

Proprietary software companies call undesired software copying
"theft".  With most theft, the way it's discovered is that the
original item is missing.  With software "theft", the original item
remains undamaged.  The "theft" is only discovered by finding a
duplicate in my posession.


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