Re: Source Code for OS?

["Simon Biber" <simon@basilisk2.cjb.net>]

> :-) .... dream on!  The vast majority of those who download those
> free copies would not be prepared to buy used copies.  If you must
> pay actual money for it, you'll think twice of whether you actually
> need it or not.  But if it's for free, you'll get it even if you
> don't really need it.

I agree, but there is software which I would like to get. If it was
available on some website, sure I'd like to download it for free but if I
couldn't then I would pay someone for it. So the price that people get on
their investment does depend on whether someone has made it available for
free. This is still the case whether it was some illegal act or whether it
was the copyright author who reclassified the software.

> I would want to say that if you buy software not because you want to
> use it but because you later want to sell it, used, at a high price,
> you're most likely fooling yourself.

maybe

> Anyway, from your claim it follows that you think it was a BAD THING
> when I asked for, and did get, Bob S-C's permission to distribute
> copies of his old S-C Assembler for free, because then I robbed the
> legitimate owners of that software of their possibility to sell their
> copies in the second-hand software market.  Is that so?

IMO on one level it is so. I'm glad IANAL...

Simon.