2008/11/22 Antony Blakey <antony.blakey at gmail.com>:
>
> On 22/11/2008, at 6:14 PM, Igor Stasenko wrote:
>
>> 2008/11/22 Antony Blakey <antony.blakey at gmail.com>:
>>>
>>> On 22/11/2008, at 2:41 PM, Igor Stasenko wrote:
>>>
>>>> As someone said: nobody pays a license fee to the architect who
>>>> designed the building each time someone entering it.
>>>
>>> In fact, you pay an architect for a design each time you build it. You
>>> can't
>>> reuse an architect's design without paying for it, or negotiating a
>>> license.
>>> The fact that you live in a house designed by an architect gives you no
>>> rights to the design.
>>>
>>
>> Right, you pay for design, but nobody pays the fee for entering his
>> authentic house (read - get a copy).
>
> No, not 'get a copy'. The appropriate equivalent is 'use the software'.
>
> And in any case, there are buildings for which you are charged entry, and
> sometimes purely on the basis of the architect. Falling Water might be like
> that (although I think I read that it's no longer open due to structural
> issues).
>
> Anyway, this argument is off-topic for this list, so I'll leave it to you to
> have the last word ... :)
>

Neither do i want to continue with this. I just don't like the
perception that reading anybody's open-source code and then
implementing same things might taint the squeak.

> Antony Blakey
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Best regards,
Igor Stasenko AKA sig.