Re: Question About GNU General Public License

[telford]

Rui Miguel Seabra <rms@1407.org> wrote:

> Yes. Mind, the realm of ideas, where the subject can be shared without
> any loss of the emitter. If you transmit an idea you don't loose it. You
> still have it, and the receivers now have it _too_ (neutral-win)

> If you give your video card to someone else, you lost your video card
> (loose-win).

> It's a very clear distinction, at least to me. Do you have a problem
> with that? In mind the most common transactions are neutral-win. You
> didn't loose an idea (neutral) I won by learning something.

So by your measurement a bacterial disease is software because you can
give it to someone else while still having it yourself. On the other hand,
a joke must be hardware because when you tell the joke to someone else
you aren't going to laugh like when someone tells it to you. Hmmm, a
secret doesn't classify at all by your system because once you tell the
secret to even one person, it isn't secret anymore...

        - Tel