From owner-freebsd-chat Tue Mar 6 0:13:23 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 66D2137B719 for ; Tue, 6 Mar 2001 00:13:20 -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 BAA02206; Tue, 6 Mar 2001 01:11:41 -0700 (MST) Message-Id: <4.3.2.7.2.20010306010616.046d6320@localhost> X-Sender: brett@localhost X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 4.3.2 Date: Tue, 06 Mar 2001 01:11:40 -0700 To: Trent Waddington From: Brett Glass Subject: Re: Stallman stalls again Cc: Rahul Siddharthan , Dag-Erling Smorgrav , David Johnson , In-Reply-To: References: <4.3.2.7.2.20010305125259.00cfdae0@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 01:04 PM 3/5/2001, Trent Waddington wrote: >fine. Let's say I buy you're theory of "balance", here's an essay by RMS >calling for a new copyright proposal. Not for the outright abolishment of >copyright, just simply for a new "copyright deal". Not true at all. In that essay, Stallman says that if users want to do ANYTHING that is prohibited by copyright laws, the prohiibition should be removed. This would amount to abolishing copyright altogether, which is what Stallman has always stated that he wants. This is no compromise. It is the equivalent of saying, "Sure, we'll compromise, and here are our terms: unconditional surrender." This is "compromise" a la Yasser Arafat. --Brett To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message