Possibilities for commercial software?

[Simon]

On 1/26/07, David Schlesinger <David.Schlesinger at palmsource.com> wrote:
>  Copyright law has _always_ been about protecting authors, i.e. creators,
>  from the undesirable economics effects of uncontrolled copying of their
>  work. Period.

It may seem obvious to you that copyright law is about protecting
authors, but the first widespread usage of copyright (in England, at
least) was actually about censorship, offering a Guild of printers a
monopoly over the printing industry in exchange for their help in
preventing the publication of censored material. See wikipedia:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_copyright_law#Earliest_copyright_disputations