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In article <1991Jul23.181544.14981@agate.berkeley.edu> jbuck@forney.berkeley.edu (Joe Buck) writes:
>In article <23305@cbmvax.commodore.com> jesup@cbmvax.commodore.com (Randell Jesup) writes:
>>	Correct.  Reasonably good, free software can actually discourage
>>development of better or different software to serve related markets. 
>
>No, it doesn't.  It just means that people can't sell junk anymore.
>If you want to sell someone a program, it will have to be better than
>what they can get for free.  It just puts a floor under the market.

The floor, however, discourages any incremental improvements unless
they are also free.  Drastic improvements yes, incremental ones, no.

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I'm not sure which upsets me more: that people are so unwilling to accept
responsibility for their own actions, or that they are so eager to regulate
everyone else's.