RE: [xml-dev] Near and Far (Was RE: [xml-dev] A parentless elemen t that is not the document node - how?)

So the value of The Bible, the works of Shakespeare, Lao Tzu, 
and Hofstadter are zero unless we read them?

Wow.  Get out the xerox machines. If I don't bother 
to read what I am copying, I'm free to sell it.  Finally, 
a defense for the file swappers: you can have the songs, 
and movies but you can't play them.

len


From: John Cowan [mailto:]

Bullard, Claude L (Len) scripsit:

> Hmm.  An interesting insight into the software business: 
> it undervalues the IP of already compiled and sold products 
> enormously.  

Or maybe it assigns the correct use value to unmaintained code: $0.