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From: gwyn@smoke.BRL.MIL (Doug Gwyn)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple
Subject: Re: Hyper C
Message-ID: <12177@smoke.BRL.MIL>
Date: 19 Feb 90 16:11:38 GMT
References: <9002190601.AA26060@en.ecn.purdue.edu>
Reply-To: gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn)
Organization: Ballistic Research Lab (BRL), APG, MD.
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In article <9002190601.AA26060@en.ecn.purdue.edu> eldorado@EN.ECN.PURDUE.EDU (David D Jansen) writes:
>...  But why should things be restricted so much.

It's called "property rights".

>I program very much and will share my programs with others if it makes
>them happy or if they feel they can use it to improve it.

Fine, it's your right to give away the result of your own effort if you wish.
It is NOT your right to give away the result of other people's efforts against
their wishes.  Even if you don't understand moral arguments, you should be
able to understand the argument that if people come to expect that their work
will be stolen so that they cannot obtain the compensation in trade for their
work that they had been expecting, they'll quit producing such products and
find something more lucrative to do with their time.

>Maybe I am the last of the hakers

No, Richard Stallman is the last of the hackers.
He has been cited as saying that any software he can get his hands on is his.
You'd probably get along fine with him.