Re: Re: Pirate PHP books online?

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On Tuesday 17 July 2007, Richard Lynch wrote:

> > Once I have written code or words, the time I have spent on that is
> > gone.  I
> > will never get that time back, regardless of whether or not I get paid
> > for it
> > after the fact.
>
> Last time I checked, most day jobs have a significant lag between time
> spent and pay check.
>
> Perhaps your day job should stop paying you, because after you've
> spent that time, you'll never get it back?

Is this "make up things that Larry said" day?  It must be, because I know 
you're not that stupid, Richard.  If my boss doesn't pay me, it's breach of 
contract.  There's nothing in dispute there.

> I choose to spend my time developing an intellectual product because
> current laws provide me some reassurance of ROI, just as you choose to
> work for your employer because current laws provide you some assurance
> of a paycheck showing up.

And once again that has nothing to do with the point I have been repeating ad 
nausem all day while people misquote me.

> If you think the laws are wrong, get the laws changed.
>
> But stealling (or whatever you want to call it in semantic name games)

It's not a semantic game.  Copyright infringement is not theft, under the laws 
of the USA or the laws of physics.  To call it such is "wrong", inaccurate, 
misleading, disingenuous, ignorant, and otherwise inappropriate.

> is ILLEGAL, 

If you can show where I have claimed otherwise in this thread, you get $10 at 
the ChiPHP meeting tomorrow.

> and a violation of the author's reasonable expectations, 

Artificially created by the law, yes.

> and, imho, that alone makes it "wrong" until you can get the law
> changed.

If you can show where I have claimed otherwise in this thread, you get $10 at 
the ChiPHP meeting tomorrow.

Really people.  I find it hard to believe that the otherwise-intelligent 
people on this list have such a hard time with the concept that something 
should not be done for reasons that don't involve physical property, just as 
I find it hard to believe that making up things that someone supposedly said 
has suddenly become the "in" thing to do.

-- 
Larry Garfield			AIM: LOLG42
larry@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx		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

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