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[Discuss] Home NAS redux



On Mon, 07 Jan 2013 10:36:36 -0500
Mark Woodward <markw at mohawksoft.com> wrote:

> This is a philosophical point. Is a right to deny others rights ever
> a really a right? In other words, is a freedom to deny other's
> freedom really a "freedom."  I would say no.

Access to the source code isn't a right. Quite the opposite: denying
access to the source code for a limited term is a right guaranteed by
the Constitution and the Copyright Act of 1976. Under US law, you have
no rights or freedoms to my works aside from those that I grant to you
and those stipulated under the fair use clauses of the Constitution and
the Copyright Act.

Is a freedom to deny other's freedom really a freedom? Yes it is.

-- 
Rich P.



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