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[Marko Rauhamaa]

Gregory Ewing <greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz>:

> * Charging money for copies of software is not the only way to make
> money from programming. You can charge for support services. You can
> charge for writing custom one-off software. There are people who make
> a good living from doing these things.

Maybe so. It can't be denied, though, that there are business models
that would collapse without copyright laws.

So be it. If your business model doesn't work, do something else. The
society is not responsible for upholding a particular business model.

The only relevant question is, is society gaining or losing by
sustaining copyright protections? This is not a question of any
fundamental individual rights.


Marko