Plan 9 license

[Mark Wells]

On Sun, 3 Sep 2000, Ken Arromdee wrote:

> > "Because the automobile is widespread, we in the buggy-whip industry do
> > not have the potential market that we had before.  That market has been
> > stolen from us."
> 
> I wasn't agreeing that such things are stolen, I was pointing out that the
> definition has a hole in it--it doesn't define "stolen" the way you'd want.
> *I* wouldn't consider this stealing, but your definition does.

I'm sorry, I should have been more direct in my answer.

A market is not property; therefore it can't be stolen.