From owner-freebsd-chat Tue Mar 6 21: 5:56 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 82B2437B718 for ; Tue, 6 Mar 2001 21:05:54 -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 <20010307050554.XGTB811.femail18.sdc1.sfba.home.com@marx.marvic.chum> for ; Tue, 6 Mar 2001 21:05:54 -0800 Received: (from vcardona@localhost) by marx.marvic.chum (8.11.2/8.11.2/SuSE Linux 8.11.1-0.5) id f2756u825395 for freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG; Tue, 6 Mar 2001 23:06:56 -0600 Date: Tue, 6 Mar 2001 23:06:56 -0600 From: "Victor R. Cardona" To: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Stallman stalls again Message-ID: <20010306230656.C25247@marx.marvic.chum> Mail-Followup-To: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG References: <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> <20010305142108.A17269@marx.marvic.chum> <4.3.2.7.2.20010306011342.045fb360@localhost> <20010306081025.A22143@marx.marvic.chum> <4.3.2.7.2.20010306092612.00b79f00@localhost> <20010306174618.N32515@lpt.ens.fr> <018701c0a67d$0b332d40$7c4cf9d1@geeksparadise.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.12i In-Reply-To: <018701c0a67d$0b332d40$7c4cf9d1@geeksparadise.com>; from davids@webmaster.com on Tue, Mar 06, 2001 at 12:23:25PM -0800 Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Tue, Mar 06, 2001 at 12:23:25PM -0800, David Schwartz wrote: > I view this as an extremely positive change, reminiscent of other legal > changes where laws ultimately designed to use the individual for the benefit > of society are gradually changed to protect the rights of individuals > instead. Unfortunately, the original basis of intellectual property law in > the United States was to exploit the mental productivity of individuals to > serve the ends of others. It is gradually changing to reflect the fact that > if I create something, I am morally entitled to set the terms by which > anyone else may use it. That is, you are not somehow entitled to the free > use of the end results of my labor. That would be fine and dandy if you owned the rights to all of your creative works. Unfortunately, there is the "work for hire" clause in employment contracts. Corporations get to decide how the results of your creative labor is used. In fact, they can sue you for using those results after you have left the company. -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