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Article #1382Re: Evil software licenses (was: KDE v. Gnome)
From: David Kastrup
Date: Tue, 06 Oct 1998 00:00
Date: Tue, 06 Oct 1998 00:00
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Axel Boldt <axel@uni-paderborn.de> writes: > Suppose I manufacture band-aids. I sell them under the following > license: "Buyer agrees to apply product only to his or her own body." > > This license is evil, since it aims to reduce cooperation. The fact > that nobody is forced to accept the license, that there are band-aids > available in the market place without this license, and that the > license is legal(?) does not matter: it is inherently evil. It might be caused by the U.S. legal system. If you are, for example, visited by a friendly alien which gets a sore, and you put a band-aid on it and removing it later rips off the arm of the alien, the band-aid producer might be sued by you to recover the damages the alien is demanding of you. Now of course if the alien bought the band-aid itself, it could try to claim damages itself, but chances are that it cannot show an orderly receipt for its band-aids because the shop assistants happened to screaming take to their heels instead of issuing a receipt. It might also be that as an alien not intimate to the intricacies of American shopping, you might simply have gratefully swallowed the receipt. -- David Kastrup Phone: +49-234-700-5570 Email: dak@neuroinformatik.ruhr-uni-bochum.de Fax: +49-234-709-4209 Institut f�r Neuroinformatik, Universit�tsstr. 150, 44780 Bochum, Germany
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