Thufir Hawat scripsit: > Does the same logic apply to widgets? If so, that would, potentially, > kill after-market car parts, which, if I'm not mistaken, are reverse > engineered from the original.
Cars and their parts are sold, not licensed. If purchasers of proprietary software would insist on buying software rather than licensing it, the problem wouldn't arise. Fortunately, books are also sold -- at least so far, though nothing stops book publishers from putting the same sort of notice into each copy of a book and gutting the used-book market. (I'm 56. I think I've bought software exactly once, a boxed set of Red Hat Linux back in 1999. All the rest has been licensed under either a proprietary or an open-source license.) -- John Cowan http://www.ccil.org/~cowan [email protected] You're a brave man! Go and break through the lines, and remember while you're out there risking life and limb through shot and shell, we'll be in here thinking what a sucker you are! --Rufus T. Firefly _______________________________________________ License-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://projects.opensource.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/license-discuss
