Date: Tue, 6 Mar 2001 05:55:56 +1000 (GMT+1000) From: Trent Waddington <s337240@student.uq.edu.au> To: Rahul Siddharthan <rsidd@physics.iisc.ernet.in> Cc: Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org>, Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@ofug.org>, David Johnson <djohnson@acuson.com>, <freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Stallman stalls again Message-ID: <Pine.OSF.4.30.0103060553550.18369-100000@student.uq.edu.au> In-Reply-To: <20010305205030.G80474@lpt.ens.fr>
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I have to agree. Patent, copyright, it's all "Intellectual property", that is to say "ideas have worth and can be owned and that ownership can be bought and sold, protected and contracted for". Which is baloney. On Mon, 5 Mar 2001, Rahul Siddharthan wrote: > 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. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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