SPACE Digest V2 #87

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Author: ucbvaxspace
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1982 03:24

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>From OTA@S1-A Mon Jan 25 03:17:06 1982

SPACE Digest                                      Volume 2 : Issue 87

Today's Topics:
			      G. Harry Stine
			  Copyrights & retyping
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Date: 24 January 1982 20:58-EST
From: Robert Elton Maas <REM at MIT-MC>
Subject: G. Harry Stine
To: POURNE at MIT-MC
cc: SPACE at MIT-MC

    Date: 21 January 1982 04:20-EST
    From: Jerry E. Pournelle <POURNE at MIT-MC>
    If one is a "humanist" does this invariably imply a tragic
    condition? that we accept fate, and give up the idea of solving
    our problems thrugh science and technology?
A word means whatever I say it means, no more, no less. - Humpty Dumpty
(Humanism is the quality of being human, so I guess we're all humanists.)
(Another definition: a philosophy in which man, his interests, AND
 DEVELOPMENT are made central and dominant, tending to exalt the
 cultural and RATIONAL elements of man rather than the SUPERNATURAL
 OR SPECULATIVE. That would seem to include science and technology
 and exclude astrology and religion.)
[Definitions from Doubleday dictionary 1975, upper-casification by REM
 for emphasis.]

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Date: 25 January 1982 02:41-EST
From: Jerry E. Pournelle <POURNE at MIT-MC>
To: TAW at S1-A
cc: SPACE at MIT-MC

More interestingly, if you cancel your subscriptoin, how will
you ever see the refutations?
	Let me repeat, Harry loves ratling people's cages.

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Date: 25 January 1982 02:45-EST
From: Jerry E. Pournelle <POURNE at MIT-MC>
Subject: Copyrights & retyping
To: TK at MIT-AI
cc: SPACE at MIT-MC

While I am as zealous for the rights of authors as anyone you
know, let me point out that as a pratical matter copyrights are
licenses to sue; and precisely what remedy does one get? In the
case of material put on this net, whom do you sue; for what; and
what damages does one ask for?  Obviously if someone starts
putting valuable properties onto the net, the authors and
publishers are going to put a stop to it if they feel they are
being harmed; but often what they will do is ignore the
situation (thus not giving actual permission, which they'd be
loathe to do, but not trying to stop things either...)

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