Reid Nichol wrote:
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> --- Karthik Kumar <karthikkumar@gmail.com> wrote:
>   
>> Use of non-free software is highly harmful to your
>> computer and ethics.
>>     
>
> Please cite a piece of software that can harm my computer merely
> because it is "non-free" in the FSF/GNU sense.  And you should probably
> qualify that ethics remark with: Should you be an extremist of sorts...
>
>
>   

Eggs are harmful because they do not come with reproductive chickens.

Books are harmful because they can be photocopied and we are not allowed 
to resell them without complicated permission first.

The photocopier is the machine that makes copying books virtually free.. 
similar to CD-ROM drives.

The chicken is the machine that makes copying eggs virtually free.. 
similar to CD-ROM drives.

Yet there is no free book license or free egg license, because personal 
source comments in code are different than personal comments and 
algorithms on paper in O'Reilly books.

Source comments, inside code.. ARE a book. My code always contains 
plenty of personal comments around my algorithms explaining why I came 
up with that algorithm and how the person can use the algorithm.


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