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Article #191Re: new powers for employers to read employees' email
From: Mike Read
Date: Thu, 26 Oct 2000 16:41
Date: Thu, 26 Oct 2000 16:41
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"Angus McBastard" <angusmcb@my-deja.com> wrote in message news:39F84080.28C3F4E3@my-deja.com... > 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. Precisely. > 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 Absolutely. I am not totally convinced by the article either, but I did feel it was worthy of a less dismissive consideration by "seejays". > It said WinNT 4.0 or better on the box. > So I installed Linux.
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 10b88a,cf6971c789d68a89 X-Google-Attributes: gid10b88a,public X-Google-Thread: fea0e,cf6971c789d68a89 X-Google-Attributes: gidfea0e,public X-Google-Thread: 10b574,cf6971c789d68a89 X-Google-Attributes: gid10b574,public X-Google-Thread: f6783,cf6971c789d68a89 X-Google-Attributes: gidf6783,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2000-10-26 09:41:54 PST Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!supernews.google.com!sn-xit-02!sn-xit-03!sn-xit-uk!supernews.com!194.42.224.136.MISMATCH!diablo.netcom.net.uk!netcom.net.uk!news-hub.cableinet.net!internal-news-hub.cableinet.net!news1.cableinet.net.POSTED!not-for-mail From: "Mike Read" <mread@cableinet.co.uk> Newsgroups: eunet.misc,uk.legal,uk.politics.misc,uk.misc References: <kqgavso9d8ugqufmkcveqqj71t8je4sv6e@4ax.com> <8t3g8p$aj$2@wallace.stir.ac.uk> <8t3pjt$qte$1@nnrp1.deja.com> <8t3qti$bp$1@wallace.stir.ac.uk> <8t4alc$98a$1@nnrp1.deja.com> <CbpJ5.3584$MK5.360545@news1.cableinet.net> <8t6805$sbv$1@nnrp1.deja.com> <u1BJ5.4475$MK5.452604@news1.cableinet.net> <39F6E5CE.3179C81F@my-deja.com> <8t9bpq$dng$1@nnrp1.deja.com> <39F84080.28C3F4E3@my-deja.com> Subject: Re: new powers for employers to read employees' email Lines: 45 X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4133.2400 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4133.2400 Message-ID: <l9ZJ5.254$Rc6.25682@news1.cableinet.net> Date: Thu, 26 Oct 2000 16:41:53 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 213.48.30.200 X-Complaints-To: abuse@blueyonder.co.uk X-Trace: news1.cableinet.net 972578513 213.48.30.200 (Thu, 26 Oct 2000 17:41:53 BST) NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 26 Oct 2000 17:41:53 BST Organization: Cable Internet (post doesn't reflect views of Cable Internet)