[thelist] [OT] Gift Culture on the Net: A Rant

[John Meyer]

>
>The other side of the coin is that I may want to examine your work before 
>I purchase it. I need to see that your work will be serviceable to me 
>should I choose to pay for it. It's one form of 'consumer beware'. So long 
>as I, an honorable person choose to respect your ability to make money 
>based on your ideas, there is no problem (even though you fear there might 
>be one).


I think you are personally justified in wanting to use open source 
materials.  However, the person that makes the tag is just as equally 
justified in using encryption to hide his materials, and you should respect it.
Look at it this way:  suppose hackers that owned and operated your ISP 
decided that they had a right to decrypt your e-mails, purely out of an 
educational desire (yeah, right), and felt that since they owned the 
machine that held your e-mails, they had a right to decrypt them.  I'm sure 
you wouldn't feel as generous based upon this notion of "education".

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