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Re:The freedom to drink coffee by nknight on Monday March 12, 2012 @01:50PM (#3694545)
Purchasing, yes. Purchasing. That's a rather important word. Consider its implications for a while, and I suspect you'll see the point.
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Re:The freedom to drink coffee by Dylan16807 on Monday March 12, 2012 @02:07PM (#3694607)
I don't follow. You can do whatever you like with gifted items too.
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Re:The freedom to drink coffee by nknight on Monday March 12, 2012 @02:16PM (#3694653)
Free/open source software is not a gift, even an MIT license does not give you total freedom to do whatever you want.

To make a pure gift of code to the world, you would have to put it in the public domain (and even then there are odd legal issues in some jurisdictions).

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Re:The freedom to drink coffee by Dylan16807 on Monday March 12, 2012 @02:46PM (#3694790)
Yes, but the point of the top-level comment was the analogy being a poor fit.
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