Re: new powers for employers to read employees' email

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From: Angus McBastard
Date: Thu, 26 Oct 2000 14:35

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seajays@my-deja.com wrote:
> 

> 
> Actually I would suggest that the article is attempting to subvert the
> Universal Declaration of Human Rights by saying that it is OK to
> breach article 27 part 2, which states:
> 
> "Everyone has the right to the protection of the moral and material
> interests resulting from any scientific, literary or artistic
> production of which he is the author."
> 

I don't think the article takes that angle at all. More like it would be
attempting to subvert what ever amounts to your personal interpretation
of the meaning of the word 'property'. I don't know how you can
interpret a number or bitstream as property no matter how many different
legal definitions you might place on the artifact itself. The most
interesting part to discuss however is the conclusion that proprietary
methods of software production are inherently unstable in the long term,
not to mention resulting in inferior products, which in any other
industry would leave the producers themselves liable for massive
damages.

Far from agreeing with everything said in the article, I do think
however it raises issues which many of us in software have suspected or
known for some time were going to have to be faced. Remember the 'Free'
in 'Free Software' has no connection to the price whatsoever.      

Angus

-- 
It said WinNT 4.0 or better on the box.
So I installed Linux.

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