Date: Tue, 6 Mar 2001 05:43:53 +1000 (GMT+1000) From: Trent Waddington <s337240@student.uq.edu.au> To: Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org> Cc: Rahul Siddharthan <rsidd@physics.iisc.ernet.in>, Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@ofug.org>, David Johnson <djohnson@acuson.com>, <freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Stallman stalls again Message-ID: <Pine.OSF.4.30.0103060542100.18369-100000@student.uq.edu.au> In-Reply-To: <4.3.2.7.2.20010305123646.00d27e90@localhost>
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I'm not qualified to discuss the relevance of the Crusades to interlectual property law. On Mon, 5 Mar 2001, Brett Glass wrote: > At 11:59 AM 3/5/2001, Trent Waddington wrote: > > >A war of words. A war of legal strategy. A war of corporate politics. > >But a war of blood and killing ala Richard III, let's try to keep some > >perspective here. > > I am. The war may be virtual, but in other respects it is as much a > "take no prisoners" war as a physical one. > > > The "balance" you are talking about can also be refered > >to as ignorance and self denial. > > Not true at all. A failure to achieve balance -- and, hence, > unnecessary casualties -- will result when people ignorantly follow > demagogues into the fray. The Crusades also come to mind as an example > of a situation where mass action, incited by the selfish, caused > millions of innocents to come to harm. > > --Brett > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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