From owner-freebsd-chat Mon Mar 5 11:50:38 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from nef.ens.fr (nef.ens.fr [129.199.96.32]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B89E137B719 for ; Mon, 5 Mar 2001 11:50:32 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from Rahul.Siddharthan@lpt.ens.fr) Received: from corto.lpt.ens.fr (corto.lpt.ens.fr [129.199.122.2]) by nef.ens.fr (8.10.1/1.01.28121999) with ESMTP id f25JoVr28833 ; Mon, 5 Mar 2001 20:50:31 +0100 (CET) Received: from (rsidd@localhost) by corto.lpt.ens.fr (8.9.3/jtpda-5.3.1) id UAA05030 ; Mon, 5 Mar 2001 20:50:30 +0100 (CET) Date: Mon, 5 Mar 2001 20:50:30 +0100 From: Rahul Siddharthan To: Brett Glass Cc: Trent Waddington , Dag-Erling Smorgrav , David Johnson , freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Stallman stalls again Message-ID: <20010305205030.G80474@lpt.ens.fr> Mail-Followup-To: Brett Glass , Trent Waddington , Dag-Erling Smorgrav , David Johnson , freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG References: <4.3.2.7.2.20010305114235.046da630@localhost> <4.3.2.7.2.20010305004222.00cfe2a0@localhost> <4.3.2.7.2.20010303132348.04461420@localhost> <4.3.2.7.2.20010305004222.00cfe2a0@localhost> <20010305134937.K80474@lpt.ens.fr> <4.3.2.7.2.20010305114235.046da630@localhost> <20010305200017.D80474@lpt.ens.fr> <4.3.2.7.2.20010305123951.04604b20@localhost> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <4.3.2.7.2.20010305123951.04604b20@localhost>; from brett@lariat.org on Mon, Mar 05, 2001 at 12:46:16PM -0700 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 3.4-STABLE i386 Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > > See, for example, these two recent news > >articles: > > > >http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/africa/newsid_1202000/1202402.stm > >http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/americas/newsid_1151000/1151437.stm > > These articles concern patents, not copyrights. Patents are an entirely > different form of intellectual property from copyrighted works. But the fact that the proponents of restrictive laws like to club everything together as "intellectual property" speaks for itself. It's all part of the same game, driven by the same multinationals. Why would law meant to benefit "authors and inventors" now retain copyrights for up to 95 years? Who's being benefited? People like the Disney company, that's who, certainly not old Walt who's dead and gone years ago. R To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message