POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.general : My particle system is released : Re: My particle system is released Server Time
29 Jul 2024 04:21:45 EDT (-0400)
  Re: My particle system is released  
From: Xplo Eristotle
Date: 22 Oct 2002 23:59:07
Message: <3db61e8b$1@news.povray.org>
Rune wrote:
> 
> So theft of information is ok, eh?

Since information which is made available to others can't be owned, it 
can't be stolen. Your question is meaningless.

> Well then, there's one obvious way
> for me to avoid that happening, and that is not to publish or release
> the information in the first place. That would also save me all the work
> of writing documentation and making everything neat, and there probably
> wouldn't be anyone complaining either. It really is a tempting thing to
> consider for my future projects...

That's exactly right. The only way you can exercise any control over 
your information is to keep it to yourself and never release it.

Perhaps you should consider carefully what you would prefer: that 
everybody have what you create, or that nobody have what you create. All 
other choices are ultimately illusory.

-Xplo


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