From owner-freebsd-chat Sat May 13 17:27:28 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from sharmas.dhs.org (c62443-a.frmt1.sfba.home.com [24.0.69.165]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 01FD437B64A for ; Sat, 13 May 2000 17:27:27 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from adsharma@sharmas.dhs.org) Received: (from adsharma@localhost) by sharmas.dhs.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) id RAA17120; Sat, 13 May 2000 17:27:06 -0700 Date: Sat, 13 May 2000 17:27:06 -0700 From: Arun Sharma Message-Id: <200005140027.RAA17120@sharmas.dhs.org> To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Why are people against GNU? WAS Re: 5.0 already? In-Reply-To: <20000514010614.A16058@happy.checkpoint.com> References: <391D71FE.1570F551@asme.org> <391D4DAD.FD80980A@picusnet.com> <003b01bfbcdc$6059fb40$a164aad0@kickme> <391D71FE.1570F551@asme.org> <20000513205610.A22103@physics.iisc.ernet.in> <3.0.6.32.20000513143506.00895650@mail85.pair.com> <20000514010614.A16058@happy.checkpoint.com> Reply-To: adsharma@sharmas.dhs.org.nospam Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org In muc.lists.freebsd.chat, you wrote: > It is reasonable to argue that today's legal view of copyright -- > *grossly* extended beyond that envisaged in the 18th century when > it was created, in many ways -- is in fact detrimental to the society > in many cases. Detrimental to the society, but good for individual freedom (of making money). That's a core idea from communism. That's also the primary area where capitalism and communism disagree. One can also argue that investing in a tobacco company is detrimental to the society. -Arun To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message