Yes; but it's a fair price to pay. What you're saying is simply a part of the big question of "intellectual property," though I think perhaps one thing we forg

Yes; but it's a fair price to pay. What you're saying is simply a part of the big question of "intellectual property," though I think perhaps one thing we forget is that the protection is the ARTIFICIAL part; IP is the thing we made up out of nowhere. Probably one of the reasons I find the GPL to be so brilliant and clever -- one could whinge about the problems with overbearing copyright, or one can use some clever judo and just roll with it.