Non FOSS and Fedora

Alexandre Oliva aoliva at redhat.com
Wed Jan 14 17:36:31 UTC 2004


On Jan 13, 2004, David Eduardo Gómez Noguera <davidgn at servidor.unam.mx> wrote:

> Its not replicated at zero cost. Electricity and the mediums needed to
> replicate it (i.e. hardware, cd's, time, internet access, etc) dont pop
> out off the air

The costs you mention are on the person who performs the copy or the
one that gets the copy.  Nothing to do with the losses a copyright
holder claims to have when such a copy is performed by a third party,
which is the argument used to deny the right to copy.

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