Date: Sat, 13 May 2000 18:00:58 -0700 From: Arun Sharma <adsharma@sharmas.dhs.org> To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Why are people against GNU? WAS Re: 5.0 already? Message-ID: <200005140100.SAA17185@sharmas.dhs.org> In-Reply-To: <20000514023000.A16663@happy.checkpoint.com> References: <3.0.6.32.20000513143506.00895650@mail85.pair.com> <391D71FE.1570F551@asme.org> <Pine.BSF.4.10.10005130735370.20100-100000@hydrant.intranova.net> <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> <3.0.6.32.20000513180213.00894400@mail85.pair.com> <20000514023000.A16663@happy.checkpoint.com>
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In muc.lists.freebsd.chat, you wrote: > Chess games cannot be copyrighted. I don't know if you play chess, > but if you do, you must know that chess games can be works of art, > they can be extremely nontrivial, and contain exhilarating, new > ideas that noone before had thought of. But chess books are copyrightable. If chess players didn't get paid hefty sums of money for making appearances, they'd all be writing chess books to make a living - except for the few, who play for the fun of it. Whatever -ism is being practiced, one needs to have a framework in which people get compensated for their work. I don't think Stallman's "support economy" can support all the programmers out there. -Arun To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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