John Hasler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said on Sun, 01 Feb 2004 17:45:48 -0600: > Brett Carrington writes: > > Except a chance to be paid back for you hard work, in either money or > > source code improvements. > > "Paid back" implies a bargain: that he told me "If you write this software > I will pay you back with x." No such bargain existed. I wrote the > software for my own reasons. Now that it exists it costs me nothing to > share it with him. > > > That's what you lose. > > After he copies my software I possess everything I had before he copied > it. Thus I lose nothing. Absence of gain != loss.
Also, much of what I rip and burn would be stuff I wouldn't buy anyway (and you sure as hell wouldn't buy $69 million worth of CD's, which one particular company said they lost and are consequently suing a guy for). As it so happens, I have neither bought a CD in the past 2 years, or ripped a CD. I'm just sick of hearing everything new. Nothing's worth listening to anymore. -- TimC -- http://astronomy.swin.edu.au/staff/tconnors/ size doesn't matter, resolution matters: Hmm, I might be able to use that one tonight. -- someone on /. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
