On Fri, 19 Sep 2003, J. T. D'souza spake thusly:

creation of tools they have legitimately purchased is not going to work. A point made by Dr. Nagarjuna at the last meet was that it is not possible to sell something that is non-expendible. Stuff like software, music, literature, fall in this category.

And what it has made happen, is, to make people believe they have automatic right to other people's intellectual property and work. As long as it was all voluentary, it was nice. Now people brand people who do not want to give away for free as evil.

*sigh*

Yes. But we shall fight for a *free* world. A free world where every is as free as the next one. Where rules only protect this freedom, not encroach on them. ...

Until a few years ago the means to produce and distribute stuff like this required huge capital. Computers have eliminated the capital bottleneck. It is no longer neccessary to have large capital to produce, reproduce and distribute stuff like the above. The bottleneck is only the intellectual process. In case of software the GNU system of collaborative creation very effectively eliminates this bottleneck too. Incase of music and literature collaboration may not always produce better results. For those of us making a living in the computing industry, a deep rethink of business models is on the cards.