[snip]
achha bas! each to their own. getting involved with the creativecommons,
authoring public domain work, adopting the values you believe in for your
better world, and doing whatever you can your way, will give each one of us
who feels for this, our individual satisfactions.
for, i strongly
On 10/14/05, Kenneth Gonsalves [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Friday 14 Oct 2005 12:39 am, Linux Lingam wrote:
er.. that's a wrong statement. even western civilization did not
initially have a proprietary culture.
ever heard of guilds? all specialised knowledge has all along been
closed
On Friday, 14 Oct 2005 10:29 am, Kenneth Gonsalves wrote:
On Friday 14 Oct 2005 12:39 am, Linux Lingam wrote:
er.. that's a wrong statement. even western civilization did not
initially have a proprietary culture.
ever heard of guilds? all specialised knowledge has all along been
closed
On Friday 14 Oct 2005 10:59 pm, Sandip Bhattacharya wrote:
ever heard of guilds? all specialised knowledge has all along been
closed source proprietory knowledge of closed groups - penalty for
transgression was usually death or worse.
That was more like trade secret than copyright, though.
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The story with culture is somewhat different. We didn't begin with a
world without proprietary culture. Instead, there has always been
proprietary culture — meaning work protected by an exclusive right.
[huge snip]
there has always been proprietary culture is TOTAL BULLSHIT.
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Niyam == Linux Lingam [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Niyam [huge snip]
The story with culture is somewhat different. We didn't begin
with a world without proprietary culture. Instead, there has
always been proprietary culture �meaning
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Actually the culture was proprietary, not because of copyright but
because of difficulty of reproduction. Books could not be copied (or
only copied laboriously), music could not be taped and software didn't
exist. The only thing that was ``non-proprietary'' earlier was the
oral
On Friday 14 Oct 2005 12:39 am, Linux Lingam wrote:
er.. that's a wrong statement. even western civilization did not
initially have a proprietary culture.
ever heard of guilds? all specialised knowledge has all along been
closed source proprietory knowledge of closed groups - penalty for
On Thursday 13 Oct 2005 3:11 am, Sandip Bhattacharya wrote:
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