Date: 18 Sep 2001 09:09:20 -0700 From: swear@blarg.net (Gary W. Swearingen) To: Stephen McKay <mckay@thehub.com.au> Cc: Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com>, freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: RMS: A threat to society? Message-ID: <ag66ag5vm7.6ag@localhost.localdomain> In-Reply-To: <200109181401.f8IE14h29150@dungeon.home> References: <4.3.2.7.2.20010913023437.045fae70@localhost> <4.3.2.7.2.20010913002733.05261930@localhost> <4.3.2.7.2.20010912203732.0492cc80@localhost> <20010912225151.58FCD37B40B@hub.freebsd.org> <20010912215547.98067.qmail@web20806.mail.yahoo.com> <01091219512600.11358@proxy.the-i-pa.com> <20010912225428.A9675@citusc17.usc.edu> <4.3.2.7.2.20010913021952.045974f0@localhost> <4.3.2.7.2.20010913185102.0497c9e0@localhost> <15266.22869.722204.601040@guru.mired.org> <3BA3248D.5E47FDC9@mindspring.com> <200109181401.f8IE14h29150@dungeon.home>
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Stephen McKay <mckay@thehub.com.au> writes: > On Saturday, 15th September 2001, Terry Lambert wrote: > > >his disdain > >for the rule of law (in his case, intellectual property law), > >and so on. > > Well, he certainly opposes intellectual property law, loudly and > frequently. But he doesn't break it, he uses it against people > who support it. That's "disdain" I suppose, but I think you > were implying criminality. http://www.progressive-comp.com/Lists/?l=berlin-design&m=93118897023514&w=2 Read the above post of his to an ML and tell us he doesn't have disdain for the rule of law (contract law in this case) and for fairness. And I see such disdain reasonably considered a disdain for people in general and take it personally. Zeal is a wonderful thing, but when it leads someone to behaviour that is, to put a book in a word, unfair, people should complain. As for criminality, I'm not sure that was implied. I'm fairly sure that including knowingly unenforcible clauses in license contracts is subject to legal sanction; probably not under criminal law, but I think that was your inference, not Terry's implication. As for IP law, Stallman clearly embraces the concept, in practice if not in law. Eliminate IP law and the closed-source developers, supported by the judicial system, would just revert to contract law, as would Stallman in his holy war to keep "free" software from being used by closed-source software developers. To be fair, Stallman's usual message reflects not a distain for the rule of law; just for particular laws. I'm sure we all have disdain for particular laws, but respect for the "rule" of even those laws. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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