Without copyright, how could one possibly earn a living writing a novel? And I submit that many ISD's are only a single person burning with that one software idea of a lifetime, the equivalent of the Great American Novel. Are we to punish that impulse by denying that person a legal monopoly on that idea?
I believe piracy is bad for everyone: the consumer, the writer, and the country as a whole. I don't oppose copyleft, but then, I don't oppose copyright either. Let's distribute the former for free, and honor the need for the writer of the latter to earn a living. The Eternal Squire -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
