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Thank you for giving me the opportunity to explain this to you
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| Software had this problem first, by virtue of
| its non-corporeality. How many people are
| selling Free Software on eBay? We deride these
| sellers as âscammers,â but in truth the only
| time they run afoul of the law is when they
| attempt to rebrand your software without
| acknowledgement, or when they fail to abide by
| some other intentionally inside-out clause of
| the license that you chose in the first place
| (e.g. selling GPLâd binaries without offering
| source code).
|
| [...]
|
| So I am grateful for this anonymous soul who
| woke up one day and said to herself, âYou know
| what I should do today? I should try to sell
| copies of that Free book that Pilgrim wrote.â
| Grateful, because it afforded me the
| opportunity to remind myself why I chose a
| Free license in the first place. My Zen
| teacher once told me that, when people try to
| do you harm, you should thank them for giving
| you the opportunity to forgive them. In this
| case itâs even simpler, because thereâs
| nothing to forgive, just explain. Sheâs
| redistributing the work that I explicitly made
| redistributable. Sheâs kind of the point.
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http://diveintomark.org/archives/2009/10/19/the-point
Recent:
File Sharing Goes Mainstream
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| Fortunately, there are plenty of legal sources for torrents.
| One is the aptly named www.legaltorrents.com, which has
| plenty of music, movies, and games. Other legal sites include
| LegitTorrents.info, which offers a search box interface;
| Linuxtracker.org for open-source software fans; and the newer
| YouTorrent.com, which is still in beta but currently offers
| torrent files across a broad range of categories such as
| video, TV, games, and software.
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http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2353884,00.asp
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