Re: Re: Pirate PHP books online?

On Friday 20 July 2007, Richard Lynch wrote: > On Wed, July 18, 2007 6:35 am, Jay Blanchard wrote: > > [snip] > > Artificially created by the law, yes. > > [/snip] > > > > Just curious, if this artificiality did not exist what could an > > author's > > reasonable expectation be? > > Starvation. I eat quite well giving away code, thank you. It's under the GPL, but most of our clients would really not hurt us if they spread it around without the GPL. It's just some business models that would lead to starvation. Musicians would still have performances, as they have for hundreds of years and as they do now. :-) -- Larry Garfield AIM: LOLG42 larry@garfieldtech.com ICQ: 6817012 "If nature has made any one thing less susceptible than all others of exclusive property, it is the action of the thinking power called an idea, which an individual may exclusively possess as long as he keeps it to himself; but the moment it is divulged, it forces itself into the possession of every one, and the receiver cannot dispossess himself of it." -- Thomas Jefferson