[8375] in Commercialization & Privatization of the Internet
Re: The 'Property is Theft' theory of software development
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Russell Nelson)
Tue Nov 16 11:54:04 1993
Date: Tue, 16 Nov 1993 10:47:45 EST
From: "Russell Nelson" <nelson@crynwr.com>
To: objectivism@vix.com, cni-copyright@cni.org, com-priv@psi.com
Paul Robinson <tdarcos@mcimail.com> writes an awful lot about how
good proprietary software is, but I'll ignore that part. He also
confuses software freedom with zero-cost software, but that's a
typical confusion. He also makes a few economic mistakes, but that's
typical, too.
He didn't address my point, which is that freely copyable software
(and information) might generate more wealth than our current system
of proprietary software.
And, of course, the tie-in to com-priv is that the Internet is a
great way to create and distribute this "stuff".
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