Re: [Boston.pm] Obfuscated Perl Script to Decrypt CSS

[John Saylor]

On Wed, Mar 07, 2001 at 10:27:37PM -0600, Elaine -HFB- Ashton wrote:
> It's a pity that both sides can't find their quid pro quo
> instead of antagonising each other. 

Well, some people see artistic residue [music, poems, and so on] as a
*product* that they should get paid for, like it was a pair of shoes of
something.

And some people see this residue as capturing more nebulous stuff
[meaning] that is not about commerce [most times].

You can guess which one I'd subscribe to, although I have no problem
with folks who want to create [or profit] from products.

However, it seems wrong that their monetary concerns drive competing
products or technologies out of the market.

More here:
http://www.toad.com/gnu/whatswrong.html

> I hope at some point people decide that this issue needs to be solved
> quickly and agreeably, stop bickering and make some suitable guidelines so
> we can all use the technology without legal angst and ambiguity.


Well, you're more optimistic than me. What you suggest sounds reasonable
enough, but as Etta James sang [so well], "You can't talk to a fool".

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