Z:gnu-www-ja-stallman-kth--f4c7c9-For a piece of information tha/en

For a piece of information that anyone can copy, the facts are different. And therefore the moral attitudes that fit are different. Our moral attitudes comes from thinking how much it will help people and how much it will hurt people to do certain things. With a material object, you can come and take away this chair, but you couldn't come and copy it. And if you took away the chair, it wouldn't be producing anything, so there's no excuse. I somebody says: &ldquo;I did the work to make this one chair, and only one person can have this chair, it might as well be me&rdquo;, we might as well say: &ldquo;Yeah, that makes sense&rdquo;. When a person says: &ldquo;I carved the bits on this disk, only one person can have this disk, so don't you dare take it away from me&rdquo;, well that also make sense. If only one person is going to have the disk, it might as well be the guy who owns that disk.