From owner-freebsd-chat Fri May 4 11:24:37 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from lariat.org (lariat.org [12.23.109.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EA43837B43C for ; Fri, 4 May 2001 11:24:34 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from brett@lariat.org) Received: from mustang.lariat.org (IDENT:ppp0.lariat.org@lariat.org [12.23.109.2]) by lariat.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id MAA24044; Fri, 4 May 2001 12:24:30 -0600 (MDT) Message-Id: <4.3.2.7.2.20010504122121.04699dc0@localhost> X-Sender: brett@localhost X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 4.3.2 Date: Fri, 04 May 2001 12:24:22 -0600 To: Mike Meyer , chat@FreeBSD.ORG From: Brett Glass Subject: Re: Publishers attacks on public rights. In-Reply-To: <15090.53231.219185.256567@guru.mired.org> References: <4.3.2.7.2.20010504093633.045b1850@localhost> <4.3.2.7.2.20010504091914.0467d5b0@localhost> <15090.43795.549818.410213@guru.mired.org> <4.3.2.7.2.20010504093633.045b1850@localhost> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org At 09:51 AM 5/4/2001, Mike Meyer wrote: >Considering that we're dealing with a group that has publicly stated >policies of replacing fair use with a per-use charge and doing away >with the doctrine of first sale... A "group?" It's amazing how easily alarmists such as yourself are projecting the desires of a VERY FEW software publishers onto all publishers of content. Your blind rage is disturbing, as are your alarmist sweeping generalizations. I am a publisher and have no intention of doing any such thing with my books. I doubt that most other publishers would either. --Brett To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message