From owner-freebsd-chat Tue May 16 6:42:59 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from moo.sysabend.org (moo.sysabend.org [209.0.55.68]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B77A437B670 for ; Tue, 16 May 2000 06:42:56 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ragnar@sysabend.org) Received: by moo.sysabend.org (Postfix, from userid 1004) id 7D0C3755B; Tue, 16 May 2000 06:43:48 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by moo.sysabend.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7A5591D89; Tue, 16 May 2000 06:43:48 -0700 (PDT) Date: Tue, 16 May 2000 06:43:48 -0700 (PDT) From: Jamie Bowden To: "Jonathan M. Bresler" Cc: mellon@pobox.com, tms2@mail.ptd.net, chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Why are people against GNU? WAS Re: 5.0 already? In-Reply-To: <20000514115701.AE00637B608@hub.freebsd.org> Message-ID: Approved: yep X-representing: Only myself. X-badge: We don't need no stinking badges. X-obligatory-profanity: Fuck X-moo: Moo. MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Sun, 14 May 2000, Jonathan M. Bresler wrote: :> :> I know. But why can't a game be copyrighted? Isn't it a result of :> hard work? Shouldn't the players (or so "that" logic goes) be compensated :> for their hard work? : copyright is the result of laws passed by congress. logic, :fairness and consistency enter into the process while trying to get :enough votes to pass the bill into law, not while the bill is being :drafted, or being reviewed by committee. Copyright is not congressional law. Copyright is written into the main body of the Constitution. Jamie Bowden -- "Of course, that's sort of like asking how other than Marketing, Microsoft is different from any other software company..." Kenneth G. Cavness To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message