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Article #75886Re: Bullshit Copyright Legends
From: Rodney Peck II
Date: Mon, 06 Nov 1989 00:30
Date: Mon, 06 Nov 1989 00:30
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>>>>> On 5 Nov 89 02:45:49 GMT, annala@neuro.usc.edu (A J Annala) said: AJ> An essential element in preserving an exclusive right to enforce AJ> the RMS philosophy about distributing software with many strings AJ> attached will be his (or FSF's) willingness to warn and litigate AJ> against any prospective copyright violators. [...] AJ> Can they pretend to be a tax exempt nonprofit organization while AJ> suing for profit allegedly lost as a consequence of a copyright AJ> violation? I think that's a pretty poor attitude you have chosen for yourself and it doesn't win much sympathy from a reader. I don't know if the FSF has ever sued, it probably doesn't have the money Apple does, but if it did, it wouldn't be for lost profits. It would be for violation of the copyright. Not everything revolves around money you know. Not even in the US. -- Rodney
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 1025b4,d866477f98703040 X-Google-Attributes: gid1025b4,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 1989-11-06 13:30:53 PST Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!gmdzi!unido!mcsun!uunet!wuarchive!brutus.cs.uiuc.edu!rpi!rpi.edu!rodney From: rodney@sun.ipl.rpi.edu (Rodney Peck II) Newsgroups: gnu.misc.discuss Subject: Re: Bullshit Copyright Legends Message-ID: <RODNEY.89Nov5193101@sun.ipl.rpi.edu> Date: 6 Nov 89 00:30:21 GMT References: <21032@usc.edu> Distribution: gnu Organization: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Image Processing Lab, Troy NY Lines: 20 Posted: Mon Nov 6 01:30:21 1989 In-Reply-To: annala@neuro.usc.edu's message of 5 Nov 89 02:45:49 GMT