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Date:      Tue, 6 Mar 2001 05:43:53 +1000 (GMT+1000)
From:      Trent Waddington <s337240@student.uq.edu.au>
To:        Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org>
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:  <Pine.OSF.4.30.0103060542100.18369-100000@student.uq.edu.au>
In-Reply-To: <4.3.2.7.2.20010305123646.00d27e90@localhost>

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I'm not qualified to discuss the relevance of the Crusades to interlectual
property law.

On Mon, 5 Mar 2001, Brett Glass wrote:

> At 11:59 AM 3/5/2001, Trent Waddington wrote:
>
> >A war of words.  A war of legal strategy.  A war of corporate politics.
> >But a war of blood and killing ala Richard III, let's try to keep some
> >perspective here.
>
> I am. The war may be virtual, but in other respects it is as much a
> "take no prisoners" war as a physical one.
>
> >  The "balance" you are talking about can also be refered
> >to as ignorance and self denial.
>
> Not true at all. A failure to achieve balance -- and, hence,
> unnecessary casualties -- will result when people ignorantly follow
> demagogues into the fray. The Crusades also come to mind as an example
> of a situation where mass action, incited by the selfish, caused
> millions of innocents to come to harm.
>
> --Brett
>
>


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