Re: [9fans] Closed nix development is an insult

[tlaronde@polynum.com]

On Sat, Sep 07, 2013 at 05:46:24PM +0200, lucio@proxima.alt.za wrote:
> > (Communism: give me your watch and, in fair exchange, I will tell you
> > what time it is.)
>
> The misunderstanding here is that conventional ownership does not
> apply to intellectual "property";

The algorithms are "intellectual" (and a lot---a lot!---of what we use
now is due to men who lived centuries ago; who had thought about things
that were no use at the time and that we find ready, now, for
contempory use).

The "implementation" is not "intellectual"; it is an actual thing. And
whoever codes knows that there is a long way from a sketch or an
algorithm to something that works efficiently and reliably. (And there
is a multiplication of software "projects" that had a "fabulous! New!
Amazing! Cutting edge" "description"---the description of a
panacea---that had not produce anything actual, except billions of
losses.)

The "gratis" software has not been "gratis" for the ones who have
written it. It took time. The bulk of the difference is here.

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