Re: Does the LGPL encourage sharing of code?

Brett Glass wrote:

>At 07:37 PM 4/12/2002, Anthony Taylor wrote:
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>>The economy is not merely
>>the exchange of green paper things (or prettily-colored paper things,
>>for folks with better-looking money).
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>It's clear from the above that you either never took -- or flunked --
>Econ 101. The key measure of an economy is the velocity of money -- the 
>rate at which money and other valuable objects are changing hands. No 
>commerce, no economy. The unmeasurable "intrinsic" value which you tout
>means nothing. It is only when something is bought, sold, or exchanged, 
>by knowledgeable, willing people, that a snapshot of its worth is created. 
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This is not incorrect, but it is incomplete and Anthony was pointing out 
the incompletness of this of this model . It is the "Value" of something 
adds to an economy and not its momentary  "Monitary Worth" How much is 
"Yellowstone National Park" worth to it's surrounding economy? It's 
 almost Impossible to say because it is like "air"

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>And, as anyone who has ever dealt with real estate appraisals knows, it's 
>only a short-lived snapshot. After a relatively short period of time, 
>that transaction can no longer be relied upon to determine an object's 
>worth and a new appraisal must be performed.
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>The purpose of the GPL is to kill commercial software -- and, hence,
>commerce. And, hence, the software economy.
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The purpose of the GPL is to kill "propritory software" not commercial 
software. Now you may think that the Two are equivilant but you are 
mistaken.  The software Industry will be fine in that most people are 
not programmers and an easy to use and well supported software package 
is what *most* people need. If the only people that you know are 
programmers then maybe you won't understand this. But  for most of the 
people *I* know linux and wine are just too hard. (even setting up 
windows is a difficult task for some of them). They are not morons, they 
are well educated in there field of endevor,  It's same situation when 
it comes to Income tax, anyone can do their own taxes but H&R block and 
a number of software packages make a lot of money every year at tax 
time.  If a company like H&R block can make money. I don't see why 
Lindows or RedHat can't. The situations are as close to equivilant as I 
have seen.

Tony Lambregts

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>--Brett Glass
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