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Re: Open source - Free software


From: David Kastrup
Subject: Re: Open source - Free software
Date: Fri, 29 Sep 2006 16:58:39 +0200
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Alexander Terekhov <terekhov@web.de> writes:

> David Kastrup wrote:
> [...]
>> Software is not sold.  
>
> http://cryptome.org/softman-v-adobe.htm

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.

-- 
David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum


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