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Subject: Re: Making money from free software [was Re: An Ada IDE and
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In article <9j4sr9$d0s$1@nh.pace.co.uk>, Marin David Condic says...
>That seems a kind of disingenuous fiction. Suppose you wrote your
>autobiography and put it out in book form. I pick up your book and say "This

That's kind of a bogus analogy, because it is founded on the (implied) assertion
that computer programs and non-fiction books are roughly the same type of work,
which they are clearly not. A computer program is in essence a series of
instructions for how to perform something useful. 

The closest real-world equivalent we have to them is recipes. So if you insist
on making a real-world analogy, you should make it to someone reusing (possibly
extending) a recipe, and selling the result (the prepared food), or putting the
modification in a cookbook and selling that. 

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