Re: [OS:N:] Another multiple response

On Thu, 2003-08-14 at 18:16, Les Bell wrote:
> 
> "[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.
Les you are entirely right.  I take the meaning of this list to promote
the use of open source software and to prevent stupid laws from making
the open source concept illegal.  This is not a list to not support IP
as a right but to ensure it is not the only way.

Johnnie

> 
> 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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