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Re: EASTERBROOK's "quick look" on the GPL and Wallace's claim


From: Alexander Terekhov
Subject: Re: EASTERBROOK's "quick look" on the GPL and Wallace's claim
Date: Fri, 10 Nov 2006 14:09:52 +0100

LOL.

backinfullforce commented (quoting smarty EASTERBROOK):

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"Copyright law gives authors *a right* to charge more, so that they can 
recover their fixed costs ( and thus promote innovation ), but they do 
*not require* authors to charge more. You hear that, Williams? You are 
not required to charge more once a piece of your intellectual property 
exists.
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And so it is perfectly okay for copyleft ("free as in freedom") to 
suppress *a right* given by copyright law and *require* to charge zero 
to cover costs of creating a piece of intellectual property to exist. 

Impeccable logic.

regards,
alexander.


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