[OS:N:] Re: Open Blessings, Was: Questionaire
Jeff Kinz <[email protected]>
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On Thu, Aug 14, 2003 at 08:21:08AM +1000, Les Bell wrote: > I'm sorry, but I've had enough of this silliness. Read my lips: you do NOT > have any "right" to other people's intellectual property. > > Companies and developers have the right to sell their work for profit. They > have the right to sell the machine code, but not the source code. > > The fact that some people choose to freely share their source code, and > this has blossomed into the open source movement, is a truly wonderful > thing, and we all owe a debt of gratitude to those who choose to share. But > getting their work for free is a blessing, not a right. > > Even authors, course developers, instructors and trainers have a right to > eat. And that takes precedence over your *imagined* "right" to reuse and > redistribute their work as you see fit. > > Best, --- Les Bell, RHCE, CISSP > [http://www.lesbell.com.au] Hear! Hear! Well said, Les. You nailed it. -- Jeff Kinz, Open-PC, Emergent Research, Hudson, MA. [email protected] copyright 2003. Use is restricted. Any use is an acceptance of the offer at http://www.kinz.org/policy.html. Don't forget to change your password often. _______________________________________________ Subscription and Archive: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/open-source-now-list/ - For K12OS technical help join K12OSN: <https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/k12osn>