From owner-freebsd-chat Tue May 23 18:10:10 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from lariat.org (lariat.org [12.23.109.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7BE0E37B9A1 for ; Tue, 23 May 2000 18:10:00 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from brett@lariat.org) Received: from mustang.lariat.org (IDENT:ppp0.lariat.org@lariat.org [12.23.109.2]) by lariat.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id TAA00175; Tue, 23 May 2000 19:09:32 -0600 (MDT) Message-Id: <4.3.1.2.20000523184114.0413ced0@localhost> X-Sender: brett@localhost X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 4.3.1 Date: Tue, 23 May 2000 18:44:16 -0600 To: Terry Lambert From: Brett Glass Subject: Re: The Ethics of Free Software Cc: rsidd@physics.iisc.ernet.in (Rahul Siddharthan), gsutter@zer0.org (Gregory Sutter), adsharma@sharmas.dhs.org (Arun Sharma), chat@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <200005240014.RAA02837@usr05.primenet.com> References: <4.3.1.2.20000522213325.0446bc00@localhost> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org At 06:14 PM 5/23/2000, Terry Lambert wrote: > > And looking under the hood of a car doesn't give you the ability to > > create unlimited numbers of identical cars, thereby depriving the > > automobile manufacturer of any future reward from his work. > >Depends a lot on who's doing the looking, I think... otherwise why >patents? Patents are a bit different. With patents, the inventor is rewarded for not only opening the hood but telling everyone how he crafted what's inside. In return, he gets a limited monopoly on his new idea. --Brett To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message