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Re: Market values don't have to be monetary values

Author:Brett Glass
Posted:8/28/2000; 11:16:45 AM
Topic:Next survey: Are you an open source developer?
Msg #:20392 (In response to 20386)
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The term "market value" is well defined. It is the what a willing buyer with complete information about the market will pay a willing seller for a product or service. This value can be stated in terms other than monetary units -- for example, one cow can have a market value of ten chickens. However, it certainly should be well defined.

"Compliance with the GPL" cannot be considered to be the "market value" of anything because it entails a potentially infinite loss on the part of the programmer. This is the same reason why the GPL is probably not enforceable: it is a contract to make a potentially infinite number of other contracts.

--Brett Glass

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