From owner-freebsd-chat Sat May 13 23:44:19 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from sasami.jurai.net (sasami.jurai.net [63.67.141.99]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BD5FA37B53E for ; Sat, 13 May 2000 23:44:16 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mellon@jurai.net) Received: (from mellon@localhost) by sasami.jurai.net (8.9.3/8.8.7) id CAA57513; Sun, 14 May 2000 02:44:15 -0400 (EDT) Date: Sun, 14 May 2000 02:44:15 -0400 From: Anatoly Vorobey To: "Thomas M. Sommers" Cc: chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Why are people against GNU? WAS Re: 5.0 already? Message-ID: <20000514024414.B57423@sasami.jurai.net> References: <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> <391E28F8.EB2C7028@mail.ptd.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0i In-Reply-To: <391E28F8.EB2C7028@mail.ptd.net>; from tms2@mail.ptd.net on Sun, May 14, 2000 at 12:18:00AM -0400 X-Disclaimer: I was young, I needed the money! Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org You, Thomas M. Sommers, were spotted writing this on Sun, May 14, 2000 at 12:18:00AM -0400: > Anatoly Vorobey 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. > > > > And yet, if you publish a game that you played, everyone is legally > > and morally free to republish it however he wants, without paying you > > a dime. Why? Because chess games are not intellectual property. > > A real game possibly can't be copyright, but an account or description > of a game certainly can be. 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? -- Anatoly Vorobey, mellon@pobox.com http://pobox.com/~mellon/ "Angels can fly because they take themselves lightly" - G.K.Chesterton To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message