Re: TeXBook

Joe Conte wrote:
In that case the Texbook is not a Free document in any recognized sense
of the word. If an author has so little respect for his audience that he
denies them their freedoms, why should we feel obliged to help line his
pockets?

you're not obliged to. there is no obligation to buy the book and give
money to donald knuth. the only obligation that exists is that you do not
produce a copy from the .tex source file. if that goes against your ethics,
then simply stay away from the book altogether. two wrongs still don't make
a right.

If you think so, then perhaps you could explain WHAT has been stolen,
and from WHOM.

while i happen to agree that terms like "stealing" and "theft" should
restricted to actual physical property being taken, violating a license on
a piece of source code, doing things with source code that the original
author explicitly tells you not do to, *is* immoral.


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