Re: GPL and Economics

Matt Seitz <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.emulators.wine.license
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Sorry, I found another statement I question:

"Patrik Stridvall" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
> Note that the possible economic transaction are not as fine grained as they
> are in normal markets. So the market is not truely free because of this.

They are the terms the owner has chosen.  In a free market, the owner has a
right to set whatever terms they want.  Just because a potential customer
doesn't like the owner's terms doesn't make it any less a truly free market.

=====
Sincerely,
Matt Seitz

__________________________________________________
Do You Yahoo!?
Yahoo! - Official partner of 2002 FIFA World Cup
http://fifaworldcup.yahoo.com
lmpx.com only provides a reader for public news (NNTP) servers. It is not affiliated with the servers or forums shown here and is not responsible for the content of articles, which is written by their respective authors.