Date: Mon, 22 May 2000 14:52:56 +0000 From: Anatoly Vorobey <mellon@pobox.com> To: Arun Sharma <adsharma@sharmas.dhs.org> Cc: chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: The Ethics of Free Software Message-ID: <20000522145256.A5983@happy.checkpoint.com> In-Reply-To: <20000521131809.A6546@sharmas.dhs.org>; from adsharma@sharmas.dhs.org on Sun, May 21, 2000 at 01:18:09PM -0700 References: <20000521131809.A6546@sharmas.dhs.org>
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On Sun, May 21, 2000 at 01:18:09PM -0700, Arun Sharma wrote: > http://www.sdmagazine.com/features/2000/03/f4.shtml > > Just in case you missed this on slashdot. I thought it was really, really silly, in the true spirit of Meyer wars raging occassionally on comp.object (the most memorable one being "had they used Eiffel, that rocket wouldn't have crashed!"). Meyer reveals philosophical naiveness so astonishing one feels embarrassed for him. I was particularly amused by his incisive analysis of the history of copyright, in which he failed to display any awareness of the differences between material and intellectual property, culminating with the passage which redefines the word "ahistorical": .. Until the 18th century, writers were ripped off by publishers. The gradual imposition of a copyright (due largely in France to Beaumarchais, author of the Barber of Seville and the Marriage of Figaro as well as smuggler of arms to the American revolution) was a major moral correction, re-establishing the rights of the creators. *re*-establishing, Dr. Meyer? -- Anatoly Vorobey, mellon@pobox.com http://pobox.com/~mellon/ "Angels can fly because they take themselves lightly" - G.K.Chesterton To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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