Jeremy Hankins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Thomas Bushnell, BSG) writes: > > > Part of the point of free software is that everyone has a software > > publishing factory on their desk, and it is the noxious copyright > > regime that blocks them from using it. > > > > My server, even if over a tiny pipe, would be useful as an ASP > > provider for my friends, just as my CD-writer is useful as a software > > publishing factory for my friends. > > But if you don't have a CD-writer, or even a computer, how are you > going to be able to distribute software? Surely there is some > reasonable minimum of requirements we can assume people can meet. > It's made even easier in this case because we're assuming they're > already running a network service.
Right. My point is that "already running a network service" does *NOT* mean that they have a very wide pipe.
