Plan 9 license
Rick Moen
rick at linuxmafia.com
Fri Sep 1 16:12:21 UTC 2000
begin Rod Dixon, J.D., LL.M. quotation:
> ...Instead, [Eric Raymond] was, apparently, responding to the
> plaintiff's inaccurate characterization that the open source movement
> supports copyright infringement. In this respect, his use of the term
> makes sense and is correct. (Merriam Webster's Dictionary: piracy -
> "the unauthorized use of another's production, invention, or
> conception esp. in infringement of a copyright")
You appear to have ignored Mr. Stallman's point: Citing one numbered
item from a dictionary definition disregards the neighbouring numbered
items for the same word and, more to the point, the _connotations_
(i.e., Stallman's point about "the moral equivalent of attacking a
ship").
There are other equally usable terms that do not carry the same
polemical associations with evil and violence. "Bootlegging" comes
readily to mind.
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