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Posted Dec 12, 2008 1:39 UTC (Fri) by ncm (subscriber, #165)
In reply to: The ultimate goal by felixfix
Parent article: Free Software Foundation files suit against Cisco for GPL violations

Criticizing based on a misquote is pretty cheap argumentation.

We distinguish a fact as knowledge, vs. raw data or ephemeral plans, by how repeatedly and generally useful it is. Artificially restricting knowledge harms the body public by interfering with this repeated use. Causing such harm is legal, generally, so must be specifically discouraged when we want to prevent it. The GPL is one way to do that. The patent right grant is another way. Tenure is a third.


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