From owner-freebsd-chat Mon Mar 12 22:27: 2 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from lariat.org (lariat.org [12.23.109.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 56FD437B719 for ; Mon, 12 Mar 2001 22:27:00 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from brett@lariat.org) Received: from mustang.lariat.org (IDENT:ppp0.lariat.org@lariat.org [12.23.109.2]) by lariat.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id XAA27076; Mon, 12 Mar 2001 23:26:53 -0700 (MST) Message-Id: <4.3.2.7.2.20010312224412.04461ca0@localhost> X-Sender: brett@localhost X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 4.3.2 Date: Mon, 12 Mar 2001 22:52:54 -0700 To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org, mwm@mired.org From: Brett Glass Subject: Re: Stallman stalls again Cc: rsidd@physics.iisc.ernet.in, vcardona@home.com, freebsd-chat@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <200103121308.HAA20629@mail-backup.rcsntx.swbell.net> References: <15020.33581.202339.895997@guru.mired.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org At 06:10 AM 3/12/2001, anon@somewhere.net wrote: >And if they do fold, so what? >100 years ago the music industry did not exist. There is no legal, moral, >or economic mandate that it must still exist 100 years (or even 10 years) >from now. Industries come and go all the time. They are born when a new >need arises, and they die when that need fades away. "The music industry" is a very broad term. It includes musicians, composers, publishers, retailers, agents, lawyers, producers, engineers, equipment manufacturers, etc., many of whom make very valuable contributions. The way in which music is delivered may shift, but it's absurd to say that the entire industry will (or should) just "fade away." As I've said several times during this conversation, there have been changes in the technology, but this is no reason to instigate a war between the many different interests involved in delivering content. By preaching destruction, as you do in your message, you're declaring war instead of brokering a new (and, hopefully, better) peace. --Brett Glass To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message