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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Tony Sumner wrote: > > How to get the balance right though? Software has always been protected by copyright, and I see no signs that this has caused widespread poverty amongst software developers, or restricted the flow of investment. Indeed I think the balance is still wrong because it is a publishing model. Effectively paying people sit on their laurels in software. I think both proprietary and free software will head towards subscription like models, although we still need to develop good working models for this in the free software world. Which is how it should be, paying people for services and time, not for near zero cost automated reproduction of numbers. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Comment: Encryption...is a powerful defensive weapon for free people. Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFCzVv8GFXfHI9FVgYRAuDQAKCrtYbYGjzBtT+9TqBn1K7Ar3fkXQCgwYhc zpaS8jgmExjIyv334ss7L8o= =OBr5 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG Mail majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with "unsubscribe list" in the message body to unsubscribe. FAQ: www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html