Re: [Sheflug] NVidia on SuSE and the SuSE/Novell/M$ thing

[Alex Hudson <home@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, 2007-03-28 at 17:01 +0100, david wrote:
> I think the argument's probably got semantic. A lot of the proprietary
> practices are unethical I agree, but I can't see a problem with
> writing some code and then not giving it away.

I think you're getting hung up on the commercial aspect. Nothing of what
I said was about making people to give their work away at no cost; the
money side of things isn't relevant to the argument.

The issue is that digital content is by nature a basically limitless
resource, but proprietary software is artificially limited. 

There isn't really a good analogy to draw with other resources, because
virtually everything on this earth is naturally limited.

Cheers,

Alex.


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