From owner-freebsd-chat Tue Mar 6 11:56:36 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from yowie.cc.uq.edu.au (yowie.cc.uq.edu.au [130.102.2.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0F78C37B71A for ; Tue, 6 Mar 2001 11:56:28 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from s337240@student.uq.edu.au) Received: from student.uq.edu.au (s337240@student.uq.edu.au [130.102.87.136]) by yowie.cc.uq.edu.au (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id FAA28683; Wed, 7 Mar 2001 05:55:36 +1000 (GMT+1000) Date: Wed, 7 Mar 2001 05:55:36 +1000 (GMT+1000) From: Trent Waddington To: Brett Glass Cc: Rahul Siddharthan , Dag-Erling Smorgrav , David Johnson , Subject: Re: Stallman stalls again In-Reply-To: <4.3.2.7.2.20010306122844.046a5810@localhost> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org need I quote the essay? Sheesh... "The copyright bargain that we have is no longer a good deal for the public, and it is time to revise it--time for the law to recognize the public benefit that comes from making and sharing copies." RMS calls for revision, not elimination. Authors who have referenced this work have proposed that the most important "freedom" we are willing to trade for copyright is not the freedom to share copyrighted works but the freedom to sell copyrighted works. That is to say, only the copyright owner may sell the work (or otherwise profit from it) but anyone may copy it. This does not appear to be a fair deal to the copyright owner however as he sees the number of potential customers decrease with every copy of his work made for sharing. It is a rare proponent of copyright law elimination who claims that the public should have the freedom to sell other people's work for a profit. RMS claims to have this opinion but I think it is a ruse. He knows that no-one can sell GPL'd software, not without some other value attached. On Tue, 6 Mar 2001, Brett Glass wrote: > At 10:45 AM 3/6/2001, Trent Waddington wrote: > > >I suggest you read the essay again. > > I suggest that you read it critically for the first time. > > --Brett > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message