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From: | Doug Mentohl |
Subject: | Re: TomTom, the GPL and patents |
Date: | Sat, 14 Mar 2009 19:41:26 +0000 |
User-agent: | BlackBerry8330/4.3.0 Profile/MIDP-2.0 Configuration/CLDC-1.1 VendorID/105 |
Alexander Terekhov wrote:
"Copyright and patent laws give authors a right to charge more [than zero], so that they can recover their fixed costs (and thus promote innovation)" observed prolific and learned Chief Judge Frank Easterbrook.
The GPL seeks to eliminate that right "to charge more [than zero]" and is nothing but socialist price control
At five cents a copy, this here distributor is making just under $600 profit ..
'The source code DVDs may be purchased at the MEPIS Store for US$29.95' http://www.mepis.org/source ..
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