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In article <13025@yunexus.YorkU.CA> oz@yunexus.yorku.ca (Ozan Yigit) writes:

   You may of course choose to immediately forget everything you read in
   that book, because the information (at least some peculiar manifestation
   of that information) contained therein is not free.  Of course, some of
   us will secretly know any or all tools you develop from thereon may not
   always contain free information, because you are now contaminated with
   copyrighted information, or a derivation thereof. If you *do* cite your
   sources, it is probable that some [people] will immediately recognize
   this to be a case of utilizing unfree-information, and will ignore your
   work.

If I read a book that is not free and apply the information I've learn from
that book to write some software I choose to make free, how does my
software contain non-free information?  (I'm assuming here that I don't
copy code from the manual, or that if I do, the author says that is OK.) 

In earning a degree in Computer Science, I've used a lot of books and
references, very few which are free.  So, a hefty amount of my knowledge is
based on non-free information, and therefore a good percentage of any
software I write is non-free?!?!  If some people want to ignore my work
becaue they believe using non-free references is a bad idea, it's their
loss.
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