Date: Tue, 06 Mar 2001 13:31:36 -0700 From: Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org> To: Trent Waddington <s337240@student.uq.edu.au> Cc: Rahul Siddharthan <rsidd@physics.iisc.ernet.in>, Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@ofug.org>, David Johnson <djohnson@acuson.com>, <freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Stallman stalls again Message-ID: <4.3.2.7.2.20010306132549.046e3ab0@localhost> In-Reply-To: <Pine.OSF.4.30.0103070617430.18369-100000@student.uq.edu.au > References: <4.3.2.7.2.20010306130739.046aa370@localhost>
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At 01:23 PM 3/6/2001, Trent Waddington wrote: >I claim that you are being misled by the "intellectual property" body of >publisher cartels. Nonsense. I'm an author, programmer, composer, and musician, and Mr. Stallman should not be allowed to deny me or anyone else compensation for my work. >This claim: > >"There is no possible justification for prohibiting the public from >copying what it wants to copy." > >is not RMS's, it an assertion made during the drafting of the US >constitution. Incorrect. The statement is Stallman's. > If you _read_ the essay, you would know this. Copyright is >not about compensating authors are the moral requirement of people to pay >others for their work. That's the domain of intellectual property. Er, what hallucinogenic substance have you been smoking? Copyrighted works ARE intellectual property. >No, >copyright is all about encouraging authors to create _more_ works. Not so; that is only one of its aims. Perhaps YOU should read the Constitution. --Brett To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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