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+<!--#include virtual="/server/header.html" -->
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+<title>Copyrighting fire!
+- GNU Project - Free Software Foundation</title>
+<!--#include virtual="/philosophy/po/fire.translist" -->
+<!--#include virtual="/server/banner.html" -->
+<h2>Copyrighting fire!</h2>
+
+<p>I was in the pub last night, and a guy asked me for a light for his
+cigarette. I suddenly realised that there was a demand here and money to be
+made, and so I agreed to light his cigarette for 10 pence, but I didn't
+actually give him a light, I sold him a license to burn his cigarette. My
+fire-license restricted him from giving the light to anybody else, after all,
+that fire was my property. He was drunk, and dismissing me as a loony, but
+accepted my fire (and by implication the licence which governed its use)
+anyway. Of course in a matter of minutes I noticed a friend of his asking him
+for a light and to my outrage he gave his cigarette to his friend and pirated
+my fire! I was furious, I started to make my way over to that side of the bar
+but to my added horror his friend then started to light other people's
+cigarettes left, right, and centre! Before long that whole side of the bar
+was enjoying MY fire without paying me anything. Enraged I went from person
+to person grabbing their cigarettes from their hands, throwing them to the
+ground, and stamping on them.</p>
+
+<p>Strangely the door staff exhibited no respect for my property rights as they
+threw me out the door.</p>
+
+<p>--Ian Clarke</p>
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+<p>Copyright &copy; 2014 Ian Clarke</p>
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+<p class="unprintable">Updated:
+<!-- timestamp start -->
+$Date: 2014/04/12 12:40:00 $
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