You'll have to forgive me, as I was in a pretty 
sour mood last night.

Richard M. Stallman is the father and champion of 
the Free Software Movement and the Free Software 
Foundation.  He's  a bit "out there", and there's 
a lot of debate in the software community about 
his philosophy, but he basically preaches that 
since bits are free and the manufacturing cost of 
software is almost zero, all software should be 
free, or cost at most what the media costs.

I don't happen to agree with Richard about this 
(since I make my living in software)!

However, I actually do agree with it regarding 
cel images.  I'm one of those people who is 
actually honored if someone rips off images of my 
cels.  If they claim that they own my cel, I take 
it as flattery.

Since I own the physical image, I take the 
attitude that they are not really stealing 
anything from me.  And imitation is the sincerest 
form of flattery.

I've stayed out of this whole debate in the past, 
but as I was feeling sour last night, and I was 
amazed at the sheer volume of reaction to the 
original poster, I allowed to make that cryptic 
rejoinder.