I disagree. If someone publishes something, or otherwise makes something available, then it is not available. It is not the author's/inventor's job to decide wh

I disagree. If someone publishes something, or otherwise makes something available, then it is not available. It is not the author's/inventor's job to decide who is going to use it and how; they only decide how they will use it by themself. That includes money, too: they can charge money to provide a copy to someone else (or refuse to provide a copy at all), if they want to do, but it should not be their job to stop the customer from making additional copies with or without any kinds of payment and with or without modification. I think copyright and patents is bad. Of course something can be used immorally, but that does not necessarily make the author immoral. If you write a program or a book or whatever and you think bad things will be made from it, then you might consider to not write it at all (if that is your choice), but you might also have a different consideration, such as, that good things will be made from it, or whatever other consideration it might be.