> On Fri, Mar 07, 2003 at 04:33:12PM -0500, David Turner wrote: > > The idea is that users of a program > > ought to be able to get the source code for that program. Users these > > days often use a program without ever having recieved a copy of it. > > Nobody thought of this in 1991. But times are changing.
On Fri, 7 Mar 2003, John Goerzen wrote: > People that telnetted in to central servers, I think, fell into this > category even then. Heck, leave telnet out of it. People have used software they don't have a copy of since forever. I'd guess vending machines might be the earliest common example. This isn't a new problem to be addressed. And the underlying debate has nothing to do with networking technologies. The questions are: 1) can software that forces a recipient to distribute it to non-recipient users still be considered free? 2) even if it can be considered free, is it worth the incredible hassle to recipients to add such a demand? My answers are "no" and "no". -- Mark Rafn [EMAIL PROTECTED] <http://www.dagon.net/>
