Posted on 01/16/2008 7:16:06 AM PST by Fractal Trader
Lying is claiming razors are free then trying to defend it by bringing up printers which aren’t free either, all of which you’re attempting to defend now yourself. All in the name of copyleft too LOL.
Whatever Specks.., he never said printers were free you did
LOL! I am going to have to remember that one in the future.
I made no claim that printers were given away. You did that on my behalf. <sarcasm>Thank you ever so much</sarcasm>
I’m not the one playing tricks of course,
Trick is far too generous a term for what you do. Knocking down straw men doesn't require any tricks--or intelligence.
I’ve once again simply exposed free software advocates claiming false analogies exist in their attempt to defend “copyleftist” theories.
This has nothing to do with "copyleft". This is about a business model that is fairly common, regardless of whether the software in question is open source or proprietary. Only the big dogs, like Microsoft or Oracle, make their money on actual license sales. Medium to small software shops still make the lion's share of their cash from support. It isn't that they don't charge for licenses, but rather that the real money is keeping the client hooked on 24/7/365 support.
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