Skype telephone giveaway- but not for Linux users

[manchicken]

On Wednesday 13 June 2007 11:48:04 Bruce Marshall wrote:
> On Wednesday 13 June 2007, manchicken wrote:
> > > Just where is the flaw in my argument??     You are free to write your
> > > own NVidia driver... just as someone already has.   Just don't expect
> > > NVidia to give you all the details of their PROPRIETARY hardware.
> >
> > No, they don't have the right to keep them proprietary.  Where does it
> > say they have such a right?  Certainly not the US constitution.
> >  Certainly not the Bible.  Could you cite one document other than laws
> > that states that people should have the right to give or sell you
> > something, and then use it to control you?
>
> Whew....  this will be my last post to manchicken.
>
> I believe the rights NVidia or anyone else has is that they OWN the design
> because they spent the time and the money to DEVELOP that design.  And they
> want to be paid for it and to profit from their efforts, just like anyone
> else.  And there are a multitude of laws which say they don't have to give
> it away even when you pay money for it.
>
> What you're saying is that if you buy a $50 video card, that you should
> receive all of the schematics and information about that card so you can
> play with it as you please....      and within two weeks of that being the
> case, there would be copies of that card being sold all over the world.
>
> You have a very unique view of the capitalistic scheme of things.

Yes.  You are actually correct about what I want and expect.  I disagree with 
your prognosis of the market afterwards though.  I think that that would help 
competition, would make it so that the best way you can make money is to 
release more frequent and more quality software and hardware.

If by expecting people to grant freedom to their customers means my view of 
capitalism is somehow strange or "unique" then I suppose I'm okay with that.

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