[Upd-discuss] Database monopolies

[Richard Stallman]

It looks like your article endorses the basic premise of would-be
database owners, which is that their profit is the prime criterion,
and other goals can be accommodated only to the extent that they do
not interfere with that prime criterion.  Although you argue that
other goals can be accommodated somewhat more than the database owners
would suggest, for the most part your article supports their position
by supporting their way of formulating the issue.

Niggling about secondary issues can be effective for obtaining small
concessions from the owners, but it cannot go beyond that.  See
http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/reevaluating-copyright.html for a
general critique.