Re: query, query, quite contreery

[Jim Devine <jdevine03@xxxxxxxxx>]

this thread was very productive. Thanks for your input!

On 10/11/06, Dan Scanlan <coolhanduke@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> So, likewise, looking through one peep-hole, we might assert that
open source, shareware, freeware, beerware, and anti-corporate
common-sense folk artists are the farms corporations harvest to feed
their otherwise barren selves. It's a modern day raiding of the
commons, and political in nature, methinks.<

Recently, I re-read parts of John Locke's _Second Treatise of
Government_. As far as I could tell, he was justifying such raiding of
the commons, free-riding.
--
Jim Devine / "To initiate a war of aggression, therefore, is not only
an international crime; it is the supreme international crime
differing only from other war crimes in that it contains within itself
the accumulated evil of the whole." -- Nuremberg Tribunal