Date: Sun, 14 May 2000 04:57:01 -0700 (PDT) From: "Jonathan M. Bresler" <jmb@hub.freebsd.org> To: mellon@pobox.com Cc: tms2@mail.ptd.net, chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Why are people against GNU? WAS Re: 5.0 already? Message-ID: <20000514115701.AE00637B608@hub.freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <20000514024414.B57423@sasami.jurai.net> (message from Anatoly Vorobey on Sun, 14 May 2000 02:44:15 -0400)
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> > I know. But why can't a game be copyrighted? Isn't it a result of > hard work? Shouldn't the players (or so "that" logic goes) be compensated > for their hard work? > copyright is the result of laws passed by congress. logic, fairness and consistency enter into the process while trying to get enough votes to pass the bill into law, not while the bill is being drafted, or being reviewed by committee. an example of this is the flat tax. every pro-flat tax person i have ever heard argues for a flat tax from the top down, rather than the bottom up. in other words, determine a tax rate based upon taxing the poor just as heavily as the not-poor, rather than exempting all those with incomes below $xxx from all taxes and then determining a fixed, flat tax for all others. this would get us to that supposed holy grail of a single tax form that fits on a postcard. (tax corporations the same as people. tax all income the same.) $35,000 might be a good figure for $xxx, above. jmb To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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