Alexander Terekhov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > David Kastrup wrote: >> >> Al Klein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> >> > On Fri, 29 Sep 2006 16:58:39 +0200, David Kastrup <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> > wrote: >> > >> >>You are confusing software and media. The media are sold, and >> >>access to software is sold. The software itself is an arrangement >> >>of information, interior decoration of the computer's memory created >> >>with electrons straight from the tap. >> > >> > Not in any court in the US in which it's been tested so far. >> >> If the US courts were too stupid to distinguish media and content, > > You are the one who is stupid beyond believable, not US courts and > Congress. Software is literary work. Stephen King doesn't sell any > media, he sells his work.
The last time I looked in a book shop, one did not buy manuscripts, but books. The book is the product of a printer, created by a publisher from King's manuscript, licensed by King. What one buys is the book, which is the media prepared by the printer with the content of King. I mean, this must be easy enough even to grasp for you, right? -- David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum _______________________________________________ gnu-misc-discuss mailing list gnu-misc-discuss@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnu-misc-discuss
