From owner-freebsd-chat Mon Mar 5 12: 4:58 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 05D4837B718 for ; Mon, 5 Mar 2001 12:04:54 -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 GAA17735; Tue, 6 Mar 2001 06:04:13 +1000 (GMT+1000) Date: Tue, 6 Mar 2001 06:04:13 +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: <4.3.2.7.2.20010305125259.00cfdae0@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 fine. Let's say I buy you're theory of "balance", here's an essay by RMS calling for a new copyright proposal. Not for the outright abolishment of copyright, just simply for a new "copyright deal". That sounds like balance to me. Read the whole essay, it may help you refine your opinion on this "balance" thing. http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/reevaluating-copyright.html On Mon, 5 Mar 2001, Brett Glass wrote: > Because we have war rather than balance. And those on one side, having > money, have been able to get ahead in the "tug of war" by buying > politicians. Again, we see escalation rather than a beneficial > compromise. I recommend Lawrence Lessig's book "Code," which discusses > this issue, and also the new book by David Farber's wife. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message