On 3/4/10, Raj Mathur <r...@linux-delhi.org> wrote: > On Thursday 04 Mar 2010, Nishant Prakash Kashyap wrote: >> So, the moral is that, if someone spends time to develop something, >> he has the right to give it for free or attach a price tag to it. > > Those who advocate FOSS agree with you. You have the absolute right to > do whatever you want with your book/software/music (note: intangibles, > not tangibles). However, some of us also believe that if you don't > share your intangible creations freely with the rest of the world, > you're not being a good citizen of the world, because you're indulging > in hoarding of ideas for your own personal gain. > > That you can sell your software for money is not questionable. Whether > you should or not can be deprecated or lauded, but in this list it can > certainly be debated. >
See, i follow very simple rule in my life. we must restrict "knowledge monopoly", Whenever u create/modify something new for example idea, machine, hardware, software, book, thought or anything, it can be termed as "a new Object". The process Or ability to design that "new Object" is called "knowledge". You are always allow to hide Object from world but you should never hide "knowledge". Otherwise this will be termed as "knowledge monopoly". For example - If you make a software and give it to user (free of cost, or charge) without giving source code, this will be a knowledge monopoly. Even if you hide source code, you must share "design document" to customer, So that he/she can recreate same software. For example - If MS Office share its standards , it will easy for anybody to design software for it. In nutshell, I am agree with the minimum layer where modification/reproduction to "some good" is possible without any restrictions like (hidden standard, patent, huge money etc) -- ┌─────────────────────────┐ │ Narendra Sisodiya ( नरेन्द्र सिसोदिया ) │ Society for Knowledge Commons │ Web : http://narendra.techfandu.org └─────────────────────────┘ _______________________________________________ Ilugd mailing list Ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd
