Simo Sorce wrote:
> On Mon, 2007-02-26 at 08:31 +0200, Avi Kivity wrote:
>
>> Simo Sorce wrote:
>>
>>> What if I have a revolutionary machine that can copy your bicycle
>>>
>> and
>>
>>> reproduce it perfectly?
>>> Would it be theft if I come and copy yours and than go away leaving
>>> yours intact?
>>>
>>>
>>>
>> It destroys my bicycle rental business, which is based on my unique
>> bicycle-for-fourteen design. Go clone your own bike and leave mine
>> alone.
>>
>
> I understand your reasoning, since the invention of the light bulb
> destroyed candle makers business I think we should go back and forbid
> the use of light bulbs, it hurt their business after all.
>
>
The light bulb makers used their own brains to invent something new,
without stealing the candlemaker's bright ideas. That's called
progress. The bicycle cloners invented nothing (except the cloning
machine; they could be rich unless someone cloned _that_), they took
someone else's painstaking research and painful field trials, and sell
it or use it as if it's their own, damaging those who invented the
bicycle. If you're a software developer, you can probably appreciate
the amount of effort that goes into producing software. That effort has
value. Allowing anyone to copy it reduces that value.
> This argument is soo trollish.
>
> The rest is reiteration of the same concept, which shows you didn't even
> put effort in understanding what I am talking about, so there is no
> point in arguing again. Thread Closed.
>
We can close a thread by agreeing to disagree, but hurling insults and
saying "Thread Closed" is not the way to do it. I didn't insult you,
and I did read what you've written quite carefully. Even if you think
there's no inherent value in a clonable entity, you'll find there is
much value in carrying out a conversation in an adult manner.
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