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From: "Hyman Rosen" <hyman.rosen@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: GNAT GPL 2005: Too clever by half?
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Chad  R. Meiners wrote:
> He wants us to give up the right to decide how we are to be compensated
> for our labor with respect to software.

Not unlike the way Andrew Wiles labored for over seven years,
and yet mathematicians everywhere will greedily use the
Taniyama-Shimura theorem in their own proofs without paying
him one cent (or Taniyama and Shimura, for that matter).

And you're wrong, by the way. You can arrange to be compensated
for your labor in any way you like. Stallman would simply deny
you the ability to prevent others from using the product of your
labor.