Re: [libreplanet-discuss] Buying the rights to proprietary programs to free them

[Pen-Yuan Hsing]

On 2016-03-19 03:29, Andrew A. Adams wrote:
> Fabio Pesari  wrote:
> > b) seem to think that there is some
> serious possibility that their work might make someone else rich without them
> getting in on the action. Of course those of us who've studied copyright and
> copyleft understand that copyright often favours exactly this kind of
> exploitation (see the Queen song: Death of Two Legs, for example) while
> copyleft has a built in limiter.

I get this response sometimes, but haven't figured out a good response. Can you 
elaborate on your point b) and some good responses for software and other cases?