🚀 go-pugleaf

In article <iViHeB6w164w@mantis.co.uk> mathew@mantis.co.uk (en font terrible) writes:

   Software is basically information; just as when you pay a plumber
   to fix your bathroom, he gets to keep the information about how to
   fix your bathroom and can sell that information to someone else as
   well, so when you pay Microsoft to provide you with desktop
   publishing capabilities, they get to keep the information about how
   to make your computer do DTP and sell it to someone else.

When a plumber fixes my bathroom, I am free to watch, to take notes,
to write books explaining the procedure, to tell all my friends how to
do it, and even to go into competition.

When I buy a floppy from Microsoft to "instruct" my computer, I don't
get to do any of these things.

	-mib