On 26/11/2007, Tom Loosemore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > People were not free (as in freedom) to choose whether or not they > wanted to pay for Cathy Come Home to be made in the first place. It > they had been granted the freedom not to pay the licence fee, it would > never have been made.
This could be said about the decisions of any public body. > This renders discussion of use/re-use freedoms somewhat moot. How so? How are the freedoms of use/re-use ever rendered moot? By saying "people were not free to do X hence freedom Y is moot" is non sequitur. -- Noah Slater <http://www.bytesexual.org/> "Creativity can be a social contribution, but only in so far as society is free to use the results." - R. Stallman - Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk discussion group. To unsubscribe, please visit http://backstage.bbc.co.uk/archives/2005/01/mailing_list.html. Unofficial list archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/
