Re: [LUG] GLUG - free and non-free

[Adrian Midgley <amidgley2@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Monday 11 October 2004 15:49, Neil Williams wrote:
> Restricting code when you have the choice to keep it free is theft, you are
> keeping for today what should be inherited by the future.

Ah, Proudhon.  But if all property is theft, from whom has it been stolen?

I think it would only be theft if one went forward to the future, and removed 
something that they already had, which seems intrinsically unlikely.

We need the infrastructure, and while the ascetics (and I can be ascetic as 
well as ascerbic on occasion) can be very pure, I look for some relaxation 
now we are winning.


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Adrian Midgley                   Open Source software is better
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