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Article #73354Re: We've been doing it all wrong!
From: Kee Hinckley
Date: Mon, 07 Oct 1991 15:08
Date: Mon, 07 Oct 1991 15:08
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In article <1991Oct6.191306.15168@agate.berkeley.edu> jbuck@forney.berkeley.edu (Joe Buck) writes: >Interesting. This is basically what the GPL does with respect to copyrights: >it uses copyright law to defeat one of the main uses of copyright, i.e. to >restrict distribution. In theory perhaps. In practice GPL merely restricts the distribution to a different class of people who previously did not have access. The goal of course is that everyone should join that class. It's not clear to me that there has been any significant movement in that direction. -- Alfalfa Software, Inc. | Poste: The EMail for Unix nazgul@alfalfa.com | Send Anything... Anywhere 617/497-2922 | info@alfalfa.com I'm not sure which upsets me more: that people are so unwilling to accept responsibility for their own actions, or that they are so eager to regulate everyone else's.
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 1025b4,aa5501946ed00cc5 X-Google-Attributes: gid1025b4,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 1991-10-09 22:25:21 PST Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!gmdzi!unido!fauern!ira.uka.de!yale.edu!qt.cs.utexas.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!bu.edu!spdcc!tauxersvilli!alphalpha!nazgul From: nazgul@alphalpha.com (Kee Hinckley) Newsgroups: gnu.misc.discuss Subject: Re: We've been doing it all wrong! Message-ID: <1991Oct7.150844.21874@alphalpha.com> Date: 7 Oct 91 15:08:44 GMT References: <NELSON.91Oct6082021@sun.clarkson.edu> <1991Oct6.191306.15168@agate.berkeley.edu> Distribution: gnu Organization: asi Lines: 17