Dan Rosenthal wrote:
On Thu, Jun 12, 2008 at 1:22 PM, Ray Saintonge wrote:
If you are going to build an analysis on the notion of theft and law enforcement, you also need to acknowledge that the concepts of "market" and "market share" are also a part of western capitalist thought.
My aim is not to enforce western laws as an end in themselves, but I have no compunctions about using those laws as a tool. Free licences can also be viewed as tools for achieving free knowledge. If we really want knowledge to be free we have to stop treating it as a market commodity. Once it belongs to everybody it's no longer stealable.
Unless I'm seriously misunderstanding your position, I believe you and I are of the same mind here.
I agree.
Our disagreement on the use of the word "theft" is really a secondary issue. I do think it's one of those loaded words that only serves to ratchet up the rhetoric. "Infringement" is a much less inflammatory word.
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