大家好，

我给大家介绍一下，Akira是我的朋友，来自日本东京的黑客。他在好多年前就参 
与自由软件运动，同时他还非常了解我们的传统文化。一直在通过中国的传统文 
化，从社会道德的角度来解释自由软件。

他通过日本的一些材料了解到“王戎卖桃”的故事，他在下面的邮件里已经做了解 
释。大家也都可以搜索到这个历史典故。简单来说就是王戎家的桃树结的果实非常 
美味，他会在家门口练摊卖桃（不知道当时是否有城管来找他麻烦），他为了防止 
别人得到桃的种子进而能够自己种桃树卖桃，他在卖桃的时候都把桃核扣了出来， 
只卖果肉。

这个典故生动地展示了自由软件和专有软件的不同理念，以及哪个理念更符合社会 
大众的公共利益。Akira想和大家一起讨论一下这个有趣的话题。

鼓励大家用英文参与讨论，以便他能更好地参与进来。

谢谢

继哲

Akira Urushibata 写道:
> Wang Rong (王戎 东晋 234-305) was one of the Seven Wise Men of the
> Bamboo Grove. (竹林七贤).  He did many strange things.  I read the
> following episode in a Japanese book:
>
>   In Wang Rong's yard there was a peach tree.  The fruit tasted very good.
>   He sold the peaches every summer in front of his house.  People who
>   bought them noticed holes, made by a sharp drill, in them.  Wang Rong
>   did not want people to plant the seeds and get the good fruit.  So he
>   destroyed the seed of every fruit he sold with a sharp drill.
>
> Original text http://chinese.dsturgeon.net/text.pl?node=91832&remap;=gb
>
> 世说新语 : 俭啬
>
> 王戎有好李，卖之，
> 恐人得其种，恒钻其核。
>
>
> When we hear the above story, we think that Wang Rong went to an
> extreme.  Software companies today do similar things, but people do
> not consider it abnormal.
>
> Computer software is a new industry and ordinary people do not
> understand it well.  Some companies spread an idea, saying "we are
> specialists, we know about these things", before people started to
> think and discuss what is normal and what is abnormal.
>
> Maybe the above story will help people think what is normal and
> what is abnormal.
>
>
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