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Originally Posted by pietrocrazy
You may find this arrangement perfectly acceptable, but many people do not, and they're not, as you are trying to imply, just cheapskates or thieves.
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I'm not implying it so much as outright stating it.
I agree with a lot of what the FSF does and says, but I think they're completely wrong and off base here. And the article isn't about ownership, it's about sharing. Look at the concluding statements.
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The more fundamental freedom we are protecting is the freedom to use our technology as a means to accomplish this same goal of sharing, to the benefit of ourselves and our communities, without agreeing to be subjugated, restricted, or divided from each other, by the companies who "own" the mediating software.
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This is the same preposterous argument we see on this forum all the time. Technology makes it easy to copy and share ebooks, so we're going to, and if author's can't make a living then they can dig ditches.
And yes, I've seen the "Authors can just dig ditches for a living" argument right here on MR.