From owner-freebsd-chat Mon Mar 5 12:20:16 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from femail18.sdc1.sfba.home.com (femail18.sdc1.sfba.home.com [24.0.95.145]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E895937B718 for ; Mon, 5 Mar 2001 12:20:13 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from vcardona@home.com) Received: from marx.marvic.chum ([24.17.229.11]) by femail18.sdc1.sfba.home.com (InterMail vM.4.01.03.00 201-229-121) with ESMTP id <20010305202013.VWSR811.femail18.sdc1.sfba.home.com@marx.marvic.chum> for ; Mon, 5 Mar 2001 12:20:13 -0800 Received: (from vcardona@localhost) by marx.marvic.chum (8.11.2/8.11.2/SuSE Linux 8.11.1-0.5) id f25KL8n17325 for freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG; Mon, 5 Mar 2001 14:21:08 -0600 Date: Mon, 5 Mar 2001 14:21:08 -0600 From: "Victor R. Cardona" To: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Stallman stalls again Message-ID: <20010305142108.A17269@marx.marvic.chum> Mail-Followup-To: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG References: <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> <20010305205030.G80474@lpt.ens.fr> <4.3.2.7.2.20010305125259.00cfdae0@localhost> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.12i In-Reply-To: <4.3.2.7.2.20010305125259.00cfdae0@localhost>; from brett@lariat.org on Mon, Mar 05, 2001 at 12:56:01PM -0700 Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Mon, Mar 05, 2001 at 12:56:01PM -0700, Brett Glass wrote: > 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. When has there ever been compromise? The length of copyright has slowly been extended throughout the last ninety years or so. This predates GNU/Stallman and others. What we are seeing today is just the continuation of the past. A frightening continuation if you ask me. - v -- Victor R. Cardona vcardona@home.com "Behold the keyboard of Kahless, the greatest Klingon code warrior that ever lived!" To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message