Re: [OS:N:] Another multiple response

"[email protected]" wrote:

>>
Since you mentioned the topic of this list and noise, I'm amazed we're
having so many people on a list called "Open Source Now" writing in
favor of artificially created IP "rights." Maybe they should join a list
called "IP Now."
<<

There is no inconsistency between the notion that the creator of a work has
the right to do what they want with it - sell it, license it, give it away,
bury it - and open source software.

I respect your right to control what happens with the programs that you
write. You have chosen to publish them under the GPL, and good on you, for
doing that.

But I will *never* claim that I have any right to your work. To do so would
demean us both. And your right to earn your living - to put food on the
table - *must* take precedence over any desire I might have to get the
benefit of what you do. At base, nobody *needs* software - at least, not in
the same way we need air, or water - so I really cannot see how one can
posit a right to it.

All I ask is that you accord me, and others, the same basic right - to be
paid for our work. I really don't see what's so complicated about that.

Best,

--- Les Bell, RHCE, CISSP
[http://www.lesbell.com.au]



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