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Posted Dec 15, 2008 0:20 UTC (Mon) by xaoc (guest, #54140)
In reply to: Copyright by martinfick
Parent article: Free Software Foundation files suit against Cisco for GPL violations

>How is it worth money if you can't sell it? I suppose you meant is was worth paying money to create it.

Don't you think software is worth money because it helps getting something done eventhough it cannot be sold for money?

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Posted Dec 15, 2008 4:44 UTC (Mon) by martinfick (subscriber, #4455) [Link]

I wasn't actually debating the value of software, which is I assume what
you really mean: "value", not "worth money". I was just trying to be
point out an obvious verbal contradiction.

By definition: something is "not worth money" if you cannot sell it for
money! There is no debating this, it is what you are saying if you say
that you cannot sell it for money.

You probably mean that it has value which is not monetary, make sense?

Posted Dec 15, 2008 7:17 UTC (Mon) by dlang (✭ supporter ✭, #313) [Link]

another way of looking at it is how much would you be willing to pay for software that would give you the equivalent functionality.

something that you cannot sell can be worth quite a bit of money if it would cost a lot of money to replace it.