Messages in this thread | | | From | "Henning P. Schmiedehausen" <> | Subject | Re: Bitkeeper outrage, old and new | Date | Tue, 22 Oct 2002 20:24:33 +0000 (UTC) |
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Roman Zippel <zippel@linux-m68k.org> writes:
>Hi,
>On Mon, 21 Oct 2002, Murray J. Root wrote:
>> It's a simple concept. I produced it, it's mine until I say otherwise. >> You grant other laborers the right to profit from their labors, do you >> not?
>Software isn't a product like others, once you've written it, you can >reproduce it indefinitely with almost no further costs. Profit is defined
Not if you can tie it to some "not indefinitely at no further costs reproducable" item. E.g. Hardware. E.g. a serial number in hardware or an encryption key.
<div sarcasm="true"> What? what? Sounds familiar? Maybe someone else came to the same conclusions? </div>
Regards Henning
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