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Perry almost wrote: > Anyway, people who want to use the law to restrict distribution of > their software are extremely foolish. Your code is out there > it WILL be copied. Forever. You can't help it. If you don't want > people to use your software, don't write it.
Anonymous says: > > Perry almost wrote: > > > Anyway, people who want to use the law to restrict distribution of > > their software are extremely foolish. Your code is out there > > it WILL be copied. Forever. You can't help it. If you don't want > > people to use your software, don't write it. Of course, Perry didn't write that, and the person reading his messages obviously had an extremely weak understanding of what Perry had suggested in his messages (which was that if you are giving something away for free to all comers it is hard to argue economic damages have occured in "unauthorized" distribution), so it makes sense that the person replying would be too embarassed to use his own name. Perry