🚀 go-pugleaf

Kenneth Jamieson writes:
>In article <29763@mimsy.umd.edu> leonard@mimsy.umd.edu writes:
>>Think if it [information-patent piracy] as civil disobedience.
>	Hmmm.. so what you are saying here is that the violation of
>laws is fine as long as no one can get sued ???
Violation of _unjust_ laws is fine.  The point of civil disobedience is to
awaken the slumbering majority to such laws, in order to build the support
to change them.  Laws stay in the books until they are either
smitten on constitutional grounds, or voted out.  Laws involving
race discrimination apparently sat perfectly well with the constitution AND
the majority of American congressmen, until such time as those being oppressed
started forcing the majority to do distasteful things in order to preserve
the status quo.  

>	In which case .. why don't I take GNU Emacs, remove the
>copyleft, place on that says it is in the Public domain and send it
>EVERYWHERE I can think of.
>	So is that my version of your civil disobedience for the fact
>that I don't like the copyleft ????  I doubt it.
Actually, I suppose that is exactly what you should do.  I imagine it has
already been done: this is excellent source we are talking about.  However,
as soon as GNU source shows up in a commercial product, they can still sue.
And such suit I am sure will stand up in court.  Just as information-patent 
suits are currently standing up.  If there were hundreds of different FSFs,
all continually suing different people and each other for violating their 
copyrights, and these FSFs seemed to have poor claim to their copyrights, and 
the people being sued seemed to be getting raw justice, then you might get 
things to change.  (Substitute: company/FSF; information-patent/copyright)

>	There is NEVER a reason to knowingly violate a federal law.
My knee just jerked!  

>	You guys are under the VERY mistaken impression that what I
>think, what I wrote, and what I discover belong to you by some divine
>right.
Don't mistake me for the FSF... I am a megalomaniacal radical interested in
debating ideas.  They are a bunch of sensible, law-abiding people many of
which probably agree with your ideas, if not your stridency, who write some
pretty darn good software.

-Leonard