From owner-freebsd-chat Mon Mar 5 11:44:42 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from yowie.cc.uq.edu.au (yowie.cc.uq.edu.au [130.102.2.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3C82B37B718 for ; Mon, 5 Mar 2001 11:44:38 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from s337240@student.uq.edu.au) Received: from student.uq.edu.au (s337240@student.uq.edu.au [130.102.87.136]) by yowie.cc.uq.edu.au (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id FAA09877; Tue, 6 Mar 2001 05:43:53 +1000 (GMT+1000) Date: Tue, 6 Mar 2001 05:43:53 +1000 (GMT+1000) From: Trent Waddington To: Brett Glass Cc: Rahul Siddharthan , Dag-Erling Smorgrav , David Johnson , Subject: Re: Stallman stalls again In-Reply-To: <4.3.2.7.2.20010305123646.00d27e90@localhost> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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