On Mon, Apr 11, 2005 at 11:46:41PM -0700, DJA wrote: > Todd Walton wrote: > > > >If they're entitled to own the movies they make, then > >there's no reason we should ever take away that entitlement. > >Certainly not arbitrarily like that. And if they're *not* entitled to > >own the movies they make, then we shouldn't even pretend like it in > >the first place, because then we're removing the right that the rest > >of us have to use/copy/view the movie as we like. > > > >-todd > > In my opinion, you can't possibly own anything which you can't take with > you to the afterlife. In other words, you don't truly *own* anything in > this life, and it's pure hubris to believe otherwise. Alas, few others > follow my philosophy, thus I'm compelled to live the lie lest I find > myself hanging from a tree somewhere by my "own" rope. >
The question of ownership is well worth examining. Many of the economic evils that bedevil the world are perpetuated in the name of ownership. Others in the name of no ownership. -- Lan Barnes [EMAIL PROTECTED] Linux Guy, SCM Specialist 858-354-0616 -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
