From owner-freebsd-chat Mon Mar 5 11:58:18 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 2D1A937B71A for ; Mon, 5 Mar 2001 11:58:15 -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 MAA25386; Mon, 5 Mar 2001 12:57:07 -0700 (MST) Message-Id: <4.3.2.7.2.20010305125259.00cfdae0@localhost> X-Sender: brett@localhost X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 4.3.2 Date: Mon, 05 Mar 2001 12:56:01 -0700 To: Rahul Siddharthan From: Brett Glass Subject: Re: Stallman stalls again Cc: Trent Waddington , Dag-Erling Smorgrav , David Johnson , freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <20010305205030.G80474@lpt.ens.fr> References: <4.3.2.7.2.20010305123951.04604b20@localhost> <4.3.2.7.2.20010305114235.046da630@localhost> <4.3.2.7.2.20010305004222.00cfe2a0@localhost> <4.3.2.7.2.20010303132348.04461420@localhost> <4.3.2.7.2.20010305004222.00cfe2a0@localhost> <20010305134937.K80474@lpt.ens.fr> <4.3.2.7.2.20010305114235.046da630@localhost> <20010305200017.D80474@lpt.ens.fr> <4.3.2.7.2.20010305123951.04604b20@localhost> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org At 12:50 PM 3/5/2001, Rahul Siddharthan wrote: >But the fact that the proponents of restrictive laws like to club >everything together as "intellectual property" speaks for itself. It's a handy way of creating confusion. (Which, again, goes back to the Richard III analogy.) >It's all part of the same game, driven by the same multinationals. >Why would law meant to benefit "authors and inventors" now retain >copyrights for up to 95 years? Because we have war rather than balance. And those on one side, having money, have been able to get ahead in the "tug of war" by buying politicians. Again, we see escalation rather than a beneficial compromise. I recommend Lawrence Lessig's book "Code," which discusses this issue, and also the new book by David Farber's wife. --Brett To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message