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> . If paying someone for proprietary software allows me to more quickly or cheaply achieve You're confusing the tradeoff. The tradeoff is not about money; lib
by chimeracoder 14y ago
> . If paying someone for proprietary software allows me to more quickly or cheaply achieve
You're confusing the tradeoff. The tradeoff is not about money; libre software can be sold as well.
The point in question is whether you should have to (or even be able to) sacrifice your intrinsic rights, such as your right to modify your own property for your own purposes.
Whether or not you paid money for it is irrelevant to that aforementioned right.
- jshen 14y agoIntrinsic right? That's a weird statement to me. What about the creator, don't I have an intrinsic right to determine the terms by which I distribute my creations? What makes you believe any of these things are intrinsic? Is that a faith based belief?
- lucian1900 14y agoThe US has the first sale doctrine, and there are similar laws in other parts of the world. The seller has no rights over property after they sell it.
- jshen 14y agoThe definition of property is fuzzy, and I can sell you bits that don't include source code. The OP is arguing that source code is an intrinsic right. I don't see that.