I wrote: > You are not a leach. A leach takes something away from the host: when > the leach is done the host has less blood then he had before. When you > make a copy of my software you gain but I lose nothing.
Brett Carrington writes: > Except a chance to be paid back for you hard work, in either money or > source code improvements. "Paid back" implies a bargain: that he told me "If you write this software I will pay you back with x." No such bargain existed. I wrote the software for my own reasons. Now that it exists it costs me nothing to share it with him. > That's what you lose. After he copies my software I possess everything I had before he copied it. Thus I lose nothing. Absence of gain != loss. -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Hasler) Dancing Horse Hill Elmwood, WI -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]